Examining COVID-19 Lung Pathology

The patient was a 66-year-old man non-smoker with a history of hypertension. SARS-CoV-2 infection was identified by performing a real-time reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR assay on a nasopharyngeal swab specimen and he was admitted to the hospital on 11 January 2020 with clinical symptoms of cough, fever, myalgia, and mild dyspnea. He developed respiratory failure and received lung transplantation on 25 February 2020. He died on 26 February 2020. More details of this case can be found in the following reference: Analysis of pathological changes in the epithelium in COVID-19 patient airways. Samples from the injured lungs of this patient were embedded in paraffin and sectioned for examination.