Respiratory therapist struggles to catch her own breath after COVID-19

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'This disease – I've never seen something that destroys the lungs in the same way. There's no point of comparison.'

RIO DE JANEIRO - Ana Carolina Xavier was helping as many as six coronavirus patients a day to slowly recover lung capacity when she began worrying about her own breathing.

"This disease – I've never seen something that destroys the lungs in the same way. There's no point of comparison," Xavier said."Even talking can become a struggle." Many are young or middle-aged adults who had moderate symptoms and never went on ventilators, yet their daily lives are no longer the same. Despite these lasting, perhaps chronic conditions, patients appear in many government statistics simply as"recovered."

At least two patients have undergone coronavirus-related lung transplants in the United States, including a 28-year old. Xavier said several of her patients appear to have developed fibrosis. "There were some long musical phrases that I used to sing easily in one breath and then I couldn't do it anymore. It's what shook me the most," recalled Guimaraes.

 

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