LARGO, Fla. - The medical examiner for Pinellas and Pasco County has a warning for people not taking this pandemic seriously.“This isn’t the flu this isn’t anything we know,” Dr.
Jon Thogmartin told Pinellas commissioners earlier this week.Dr. Thogmartin’s office has done a post-mortem examination of people infected with COVID-19.RELATED Florida's COVID-19 cases top 141,000 after increasing more than 8,500 Sunday“My gosh, I really don’t know how to say it without being gruesome, it just destroys the lungs,” he said. “Let me just say that.” The bodies he examined were from the most intense cases of COVID-19, in which the virus obviously claimed their lives.“When the person dies, you can find lungs that don’t look and feel like lungs.