At UVA’s Center for Immunology Research, Jie Sun has been studying laboratory mice after they recovered from pneumonia linked to COVID-19 or flu, and it turned out they were more likely to have inflammation and scarring of the lungs – conditions that put them at increased risk for lung cancer.
His team also looked at the medical records of 900,000 people who had serious cases of COVID.
“Severe cases —we define it by people who need to be hospitalized,” he explains…