{"id":806321,"date":"2020-04-12T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=381719"},"modified":"2020-04-12T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T00:30:00","slug":"centura-health-cautions-against-vaping-during-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/centura-health-cautions-against-vaping-during-coronavirus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Centura Health cautions against vaping during coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"20\">\n<div class=\"p402_hide\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1086551016-1024x678.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-372689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1086551016-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1086551016-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-1086551016-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Vaping devices on display. Centura Health has looked into the impact of COVID-19 patients who use e-cigarettes. <\/strong><br \/><em>Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>DILLON \u2014 Centura Health wrote in a press release that medical experts are questioning if lung damage from vaping is contributing to the relatively high number of positive COVID-19 patients in Colorado, as 33% of COVID-19 patients are under the age of 40. Dr. Judd Dawson reported in the release that a 2019 study found that the immune systems of female subjects weren\u2019t as strong post-vaping. Dawson said that since the new coronavirus attacks its hosts\u2019 lungs, having already damaged lungs means that recovery from coronavirus becomes more difficult.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Summit County has one of the highest rates of teenagers in the state who report use of e-cigarettes at 36%, Dawson encouraged people to consider and to talk to loved ones about the \u201cadded risk of vaping in the era of COVID-19.\u201d Dawson said quitting vaping may help lungs heal, and that if people need help quitting they should talk to their physician, preferably via telehealth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"11.338785046729\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-7 pt-3 pb-4 sd-4 pl-4\" readability=\"17.745882352941\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png\" class=\"logo\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>As a Summit Daily News reader, you make our work possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now more than ever, your financial support is critical to help us keep our communities informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having on our residents and businesses. 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Getty Images DILLON \u2014 Centura Health wrote in a press release that medical experts are questioning if lung damage from vaping is contributing to the relatively high number of positive COVID-19 patients in Colorado, as 33% of COVID-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 07:18:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}