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Aug 2020
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A Look at What COVID-19 Does to the Lung...

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Host: Andrew Wilner, MD, FACP, FAAN
Guest: William W. Li, MD

How do the lungs of healthy patients differ from the lungs of patients with COVID-19 or the flu? That’s the exact question Dr. William Li wanted to answer, and now, he’s sharing the results of his study that was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Published August 12, 2020

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