The trajectory of COVID-19 cardiopulmonary disease: insights from an autopsy study of community-based, pre-hospital deaths.

Luke MilrossJoaquim MajoJulian PulleSam HoggardNigel CooperBethany HunterChristopher James Arthur Duncan Andrew FilbyAndrew J Fisher

Published in: ERJ open research (2022)

Identifying such advanced acute lung injury in community-based deaths is extremely unusual and raises the question why some with severe COVID-19 pneumonitis were not hospitalised. Multiple factors including low symptom burden, rapidly progressive disease trajectories and psychosocial factors provide possible explanations.

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