# The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients - The New York Times

<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

The potential for so much impact before you even feel the symptoms of COVID-19 is concerning.

> Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs in which the air sacs fill with fluid or pus. Normally, patients develop chest discomfort, pain with breathing and other breathing problems. But when Covid pneumonia first strikes, patients don’t feel short of breath, even as their oxygen levels fall. And by the time they do, they have alarmingly low oxygen levels and moderate-to-severe pneumonia (as seen on chest X-rays). Normal oxygen saturation for most persons at sea level is 94 to 100 percent; Covid pneumonia patients I saw had oxygen saturations as low as 50 percent.

Now I want a pulse oximeter for home! 😷

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