Vaping Injuries Left a Trail of Dire Cases Around the U.S.

Early this July, a previously healthy 21-year-old man came to the hospital with shortness of breath. His symptoms worsened so fast he had to be transferred by helicopter to the University of Utah Health in Salt Lake City.

There, doctors were stumped. The man’s lungs were almost a complete white-out, as if he had pneumonia or a severe case of flu. But it was the middle of summer, far from flu season, and tests found no infection. The only thing out of the ordinary was that the patient had been vaping THC and nicotine products.