Chest radiographs of a coronavirus patient

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Patient on days 8 and 11 after the onset of illness:

Full report: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001017

Heres a normal one for comparison:

Here is one showing pneumonia in the right lung base:

So basically it clogs up the lungs with the dense white stuff

The dense white stuff being fluid, mucus, and other stuff that generally shouldn’t be in your lungs. This is what all cases of pneumonia do, regardless of their origin (viral, bacterial, chemical, etc.) and relative severity.

How might the treatment in a hospital be for this?

They install apparatuses to aid breathing and create an environment in the body that counters inflammation. They basically try to support the bodies immune system as best as possible and try help the patient to breathe as best as possible.

In case of the Virus you need to take additional steps to make it harder for the pathogens to survive which in case of the Corona would be an alkaloid gastrointestinal environment as well as an increased PH value (which is hard to accomplish in a short time period).

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Chest CT images of COVID-19 lung involvement in a 44-year old Huanan Seafood worker. Day 13 of symptom progression (died 7 days later)

The patches are (predominantly) diffuse alveolar damage. That leads to edema (a fluid build up in the lungs,) and the beginnings of fibrosis (excess connective tissue.) Due to all of the replication and damage going on, there is also a build up up extra proteins and dead cells which clog up the lungs.