Texas trauma surgeon Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall says that means even survivors could have long-term post-COVID problems.
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Post-COVID lungs worse than the worst smokers' lungs, surgeon says
"Everyone's just so worried about the mortality thing and that's terrible and it's awful," she
told CBS Dallas. "But man, for all the survivors and the people who have tested positive this is -- it's going to be a problem."
She's treated thousands of patients since March.
Bankhead-Kendall, an assistant professor of surgery with Texas Tech University, in Lubbock, says patients who've had COVID-19 symptoms show a severe chest X-ray every time, and those who were asymptomatic show a severe chest X-ray 70 to 80% of the time.
"There are still people who say 'I'm fine. I don't have any issues,' and you pull up their chest X-ray and they absolutely have a bad chest X-ray," she said.