Obesity shapes COVID-19’s long-term damage (IMAGE)

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Obesity shapes COVID-19’s long-term damage

Caption

Photographs of lungs from animals that exhibited minimal and more severe lung pathology 6 months after infection with the delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with a corresponding histological image below in each case showing a specific lung lesion (bronchioloalveolar hyperplasia; inside dotted line) in the more affected animal.

Credit

Sauter KA, et al., 2025, PLOS Pathogens, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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