"How Patients Die After Contracting COVID-19, The New Coronavirus Disease : But the new coronavirus attacks the lungs, and in about 20% of patients, ...

  "How Patients Die After Contracting COVID-19, The New Coronavirus Disease : But the new coronavirus attacks the lungs, and in about 20% of patients, infections can get more serious. As the virus enters lung cells, it starts to replicate, destroying the cells, explains Dr. Yoko Furuya , an infectious disease specialist at Columbia"

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/14/805289669/how-covid-19-kills-the-new-coronavirus-disease-can-take-a-deadly-turn