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Understanding lung damage in patients with COVID-19
A severe course of COVID-19 disease is not caused by the direct destruction of the lung due to the multiplication of the virus. As researchers from Berlin report in the journal "Nature Communications", inflammatory processes and the endothelium of the lung are involved.