COVID pneumonia
Pandemic lung infection
COVID pneumonia is lung inflammation caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the pathogen responsible for COVID-19.
Unlike typical bacterial pneumonia, it often affects both lungs simultaneously and can progress rapidly to severe respiratory failure.
The condition became widely discussed during the pandemic as a leading cause of hospitalization and death: The CT scan showed classic ground-glass patterns of COVID pneumonia.
- ventilatorMechanical breathing apparatus
- ICUAcute care ward
- intensive careSpecialized treatment for severe illness
- oxygenElement eight, colorless gas
- oxygen saturationBlood's carried gas level
lungs · lung damage · intubation · cytokine storm · fever · breathless · shortness of breath · hospital · hospital bed · isolation · respiratory · inflammation · coronavirus · prone · remdesivir · dexamethasone · hypoxia · blood clots
- COVID-19spike protein, mRNA vaccines, omicron, variants, Delta variant
- lung diseasespneumoconiosis, bronchitis, silicosis, emphysema, black lung
- Respiratory Infectionsbronchitis, influenza, flu, tuberculosis, TB
- Pneumoniasbronchopneumonia, Legionnaires disease, PCP
- breathing problemsrespiratory arrest, respiratory distress, apnea, hypoxia, asphyxiation
COVID pneumoniabacterial pneumonia
Microbial infection of lungs
Legionnaires' disease · aspiration pneumonia · tuberculosis · viral pneumonia