Meghan Holohan is a digital health reporter for TODAY.com and covers patient-centered stories, women’s health, disability and rare diseases.
Last year, medical student James Shen contracted COVID-19 while working in the emergency room during a rotation. He developed pneumonia and was hospitalized. As part of his care, he underwent a chest X-ray, and doctors discovered something unusual. “This is probably the rare instance where COVID might have saved someone’s life,” Shen, 31, of Manchester, Connecticut, tells TODAY.com. “When they did the chest X-ray, that’s when they actually found … a large pleural effusion in my chest.
But it had grown so large the mass was “the size of your head,” Friedberg adds. “It was literally that much cancer,” he continues. “It was occupying the greater part of his right chest. It was squashing his heart and pushing it over. … It was colossal.
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