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Medical experts have warned young Australians to 'open their minds' and be aware of the devastating long-term health effects Covid could give them.
Infectious disease Professor Marc Kvansakul said the past 12 months showed coronavirus can produce greatly varied forms of illnesses.
The professor's view follows a recent ground-breaking study which saw Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) Beamlines examined atomically - one with Covid and the second from human lungs.
'Our research discovered that once a person is infected, Covid attacks human lung tissue, and the damage could be significant, in the short term and long term,' Professor Kvansakul told Daily Mail Australia.
'While smoking cigarettes for example, causes continual damage to the lungs, being struck by Covid in your respiratory tissues is like getting hit by a truck.'
Melbourne based Infectious Diseases Professor Marc Kvansakul is concerned by the lax attitude to coronavirus for those aged under 30 in Australia
A series of health experts have stressed the importance of mass vaccinations across Australia in a bid to combat a Covid outbreak (pictured registered nurses in Queensland getting the jab)
Professor Kvansakul, an expert at La Trobe
