How COVID affects the lungs.

[edhopper]

It's not an upper respiratory like pneumonia. So there isn't always a lot of gasping and coughing (though that can happen too). It interferes with the lungs getting oxygen into the blood, it's not that they can't breath as much as their breathing isn't giving them the air they need.

[Earthshine2]

1. In this case, what doesn't kill you will *not* make you stronger.

Rather, it leaves you weaker and damaged for life.

And, it's likely that any immunity acquired from being ill or vaccines lasts only a matter of months.

That means you can catch this thing again.

Wash, rinse, repeat ... until the end.

[roamer65]

2. It infects the alveolar cells that are responsible for gas exchange in the lungs.

The cells die and the gas exchange slows or stops completely.

Same as SARS-CoV-1, just much more infectious.

[edhopper]

3. Thanks for the medical explanation

[JCMach1]

4. Good explanation. I NEVER coughed

It's like no 'normal' pneumonia for most people

[edhopper]

5. I hope you are feeling better.

Took my wife a month to get over it.

[JCMach1]

6. I was on dexamethasone and remsdesivir

So I don't discount that drugs can be useful. However, I know exactly what the PoTus is going though and it isn't pretty. I would have 25thd myself.

Virologist saved my life. But I was lucky as hell.