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    Re: Question for dan Archived Message

    Posted by dan on May 1, 2020, 9:51 am, in reply to "Question for dan"

    sorry Derek - there is a discernible pattern in current cases.

    I was tryi g to say I've never seen anything like this before or if I have it's been a one off.

    Compared with flu the xray changes are much l4ss dramatic but the lung function is worse ina non classical way.

    If I have seen this type of illness in the past I would have shrugged and said it's a bit weird that patient X was so ill with relatively minor chest xray changes and left it at that.

    When there are 15 people on a 15 bedded ward all with the same xray and terrible "lung mechanics" it's easier to recognise this as a new illness.

    I might have missed the one a year previously.

    I'll try and find some photos

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