China: In another shocking incident involving physical stress from wearing a mask, a man in China walked two miles to the coronavirus epicenter city of Wuhan after his lung burst.
According to the UK’s Sun, the young jogger, aged 26, was taken to Wuhan Central Hospital, where he underwent major surgery for a collapsed lung after complaining of difficulty breathing. On examination, it was found that the man’s left lung had constricted by 90 percent, causing the heart to move to the right side of his body.
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A collapsed lung condition is known as pneumothorax, which occurs when air leaks into the space between the lung and the chest wall, causing shortness of breath that can even be fatal.
Chen Baojun, chief of thoracic surgery at the hospital, said the man was already suffering from a spontaneous pneumothorax because of his tall and lean frame. According to the report, health officials also cited wearing a mask as one of the reasons for the man’s lung burst.
In a similar incident, two Chinese boys involved in physical activity died within a week of wearing masks while gymming. It is a matter of when both the boys, aged 14, were running for physical examination, when suddenly they fell on the track. One of the boy’s death certificates listed the cause of sudden cardiac arrest.
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