About "10 to 15% of patients" complain of persistent symptoms of fatigue and shortness of breath a month and a half after being infected with the coronavirus, according to the infectiologist Pierre Tattevin of the CHU of Rennes, president of the Society of Infectious Pathology French language.
“It's 10 to 15%, it's not a majority at all. But it is striking because they were people who did not have a serious form at the start, "he explains. According to him, there would be no particular profile: "we have seen people who were very active before and who crossed their Covid rather well, who were sick for a week or two like everyone else, who even had the impression that it would heal as if it were a flu. But they realize that in the end it's not going so well. They are often young people ”.
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- 20 Minutes (@ 20Minutes) June 5, 2020Symptoms that look "a little like asthma, bronchial over-reactivity." They do not show inflammation from blood tests. One has the impression that it is the tail of the disease, that it is improving and that they will not stay sick all their life. We learned to be careful with this virus, it surprised us several times. But there, we do not have the impression that it will become chronic. "
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