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app today. This is another in our series of coronavirus episodes of Scientific American Science

Talk posted on April 23rd, 2020.

I'm Steve Merski.

In this episode, we hear again from our contributing editor W.A. Gibbs in Washington State,

a region that now seems to have passed the peak of this first wave of the pandemic.

Gibbs reports on how pathologists are starting to get a much

closer look at the damage that COVID-19 does to the body by carefully examining the lungs,

hearts, kidneys, and other organs of people who have died while infected with the novel

coronavirus. Wait spoke with experts at the Cleveland Clinic

and the University of Washington

who have performed these high-risk autopsies,

very few of which have been done so far in the United States.

COVID-19 is a new disease,

and doctors have been struggling to figure out how best to treat it.

Putting people on ventilators is always a last resort. For other diseases, typically about half

the patients who go onto a ventilator do not survive. But COVID-19 patients seem to do even worse

on mechanical ventilation. A study in the UK found that only about a third of coronavirus patients survived that experience.

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