Covid-19 Can Scar Lungs. Preventing It With Drugs Is Debated.

Expensive drugs are being tested to see if they can slow the coronavirus’s breath-stealing damage; yet the tissue injury might also reverse on its own

Roxanne Khamsi
Elemental
Published in
6 min readDec 14, 2020

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Doctor checking coronavirus patient chest x-ray film at ward hospital.
Photo: Virojt Changyencham/Getty Images

One of the scariest elements of Covid-19 is that even among those who survive the disease, damage to the lungs…

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Roxanne Khamsi
Elemental

Health reporter uncovering overlooked science. Follow her on Twitter at @rkhamsi and get her new articles here: https://roxanne.substack.com/p/coming-soon