This article is co-published with Dome, a Johns Hopkins Medicine publication that debuted in its new, online-only format on March 1
Swimming laps in the pool at East Baltimore’s Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Alvin Winn often wonders how, exactly, his lungs function.
“I’m on the swim team,” the 10th-grader explains. “It makes me think a lot about breathing and what happens when people have difficulty with it.”
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