Dr Shu-Yuan Xiao, a professor of pathology at the University of Chicago School of Medicine, has examined pathology reports on coronavirus patients in China. Neither patient’s lung cancer was advanced enough to kill them, he said. One of those patients, an 84-year-old woman with diabetes, died from pneumonia caused by coronavirus, Xiao said the records showed. 6 What do scientists still not know about coronavirus patients? Although the illness resembles Sars in many respects and has elements in common with influenza and pneumonia, the course a patient’s coronavirus will take is not yet fully understood.

Source: Daily Nation March 22, 2020 09:00 UTC