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This is encouraging for healthy youngsters BUT age and health are also the criteria for receiving treatment in Italy at the moment. As the epidemic grows the categories of people that get ventilation decrease and the deaths will get younger and healthier.

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Even if a youngster as a higher change of survival, there are serious effects reported. Fibrosis (damage of the lung tissue) lasts for much longer (over 4 weeks) than it is known in any typical flu. And what happens after 4 weeks is still totally unclear.

As we don't know yet of the long term effects, please don't take that lightly!

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All pneumonia’s have decreased lung function post-infection and require therapy to retain full or close to full lung function.

Curious where you’re getting this info from

Sure, thank you for asking.

My source is an interview in the first German state TV station (ARD). I am sorry that I can't provide you with an English source. If you understand German, please watch https://youtu.be/IHF0IDtW6LA?t=882 from minute 14:42.

As a second source, I found a written report on the TV talk here, for which you may use, e.g., deepl.com to translate it: https://www.express.de/news/promi-und-show/corona-talk-spd-p...

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