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Machines valiantly take over for faltering kidneys, heart valves, bronchial tubes.

In some cases, the infection travels from the sinus and bronchial tubes into deep lung tissue, triggering severe pneumonia that drowns the victim.

A video animation shows a catheter being inserted inside the trachea, stopping at the bronchial tubes and the light being administered.

Yes, Browne had written more than a decade ago that “in around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments.”

The virus then “crawls progressively down the bronchial tubes,” Dr. Schaffner said.