Coronavirus is filling some patients’ lungs with liquid ‘jelly’, doctors have warned. The jelly was discovered by researchers from Umea University in Sweden during autopsies of some deceased COVID-19 patients, and is described as a ‘clear liquid jelly’.
According to the researchers, the lungs resemble those of ‘someone who has drowned’. An analysis of the jelly revealed that it consists of a substance called hyaluronan, which is usually found in connective tissue.
Hyaluronan is also produced synthetically in the beauty industry for lip augmentation and anti-wrinkle treatments. In a statement, the researchers explained: “Since hyaluronan can bind large amounts of water in its web of long molecules, it forms a jelly-like substance. “And it