--- title: "This is What Your Lungs Look Like With COVID-19" description: "The George Washington University Hospital has released a 3D video of a 59-year-old male COVID-19 patient's lungs days after showing no coronavirus symptoms." date: "2020-03-26" modified: "2020-03-26" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/covid-19-coronavirus-lungs-video" categories: - "Developments" - "Health & Medicine" tags: - "coronavirus" - "covid-19" - "lungs" - "virus" --- # This is What Your Lungs Look Like With COVID-19 ![The George Washington University Hospital has released a 3D video of a 59-year-old male COVID-19 patient's lungs days after showing no coronavirus symptoms.]() *\Image: George Washington University Hospital\* The George Washington University Hospital in DC has released a 3D video of a 59-year-old male coronavirus patient's lungs just days after showing no symptoms at all. https://youtu.be/9rgJOBHwTkM The video itself shows extensive damage and inflammation shown in yellow. A pair of healthy lungs would show no yellow areas at all. The patient now needs a ventilator to breathe and a separate machine to circulate and oxygenate his blood. "This is not a 70, 80-year-old immunosuppressed, diabetic patient," Keith Mortman, the chief of thoracic surgery at George Washington University Hospital, [told *CNN*](). "Other than high blood pressure, he has no other significant medical issues. This is a guy who's minding his own business and gets it." "For these patients who essentially present in progressive respiratory failure, the damage to the lungs is rapid and widespread," Mortman told *CNN*. "Unfortunately, once damaged to this degree, the lungs can take a long time to heal. For approximately 2-4 percent of patients with Covid-19, the damage is irreversible and they will succumb to the disease." "I want people to see this and understand what this can do," Mortman said. "People need to take this seriously." ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()