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Coronavirus 'like AIDS and SARS combined' and causes lifelong damage, warn doctors

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Chinese doctors say autopsies of coronavirus victims suggest the disease is far worse than previously imagined. Medical teams from Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University warned that the virus causes irreversible damage to the lungs and immune system. "The influence of COVID-19 on the human body is like a combination of SARS and AIDS as it damages both the lungs and immune systems," Peng Zhiyong, who works at the hospital near the disease epicentre, told the Global Times.

Speaking to the country's Communist Party mouthpiece, following a paper published in the Journal of Forensic Medicine, he warned that even if patients recovered, they were left with "irreversible" lung damage.

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