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This was also confirmed by a physician from Innsbruck, Austria that looked after healthy young adults that were divers and got the virus - all of them had only mild symptoms but most lost the fitness to dive anymore and lack lung function.

https://www.sportschau.de/weitere/allgemein/corona-lungen-sc... (I did not found an english link)

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they could also need longer to recover,

It's been discussed in the linked article (a translator should work reasonably well). For the physician the look of the lungs in the scans indicate it's non-reversible but only time will tell.

Lung scarring is not reversible yet. If it grow too much, it might turn into pulmonary fibrosis and kill you in ~5 year.

https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-looku...

Other fibrosis can be chirgurgically removed (happened to a semi-pro i know of), but this is not possible for the lungs.

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