A normal, healthy lung compared to a post-COVID lung. (Credit: Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall) LUBBOCK, Texas. - A Texas doctor is noticing a pattern in her patients that could reveal another possible devastating side effect of COVID-19: severely scarred lungs.Dr.
Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, a trauma surgeon at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, said she’s seeing lung scarring in some patients who have had COVID-19 that’s worse than what she sees in the lungs of people who smoke.