Long-term sequelae of Covid-19
Covid-19 can have more or less long-term consequences on our body REUTERS - BENOIT TESSIER
By: Caroline Paré Follow
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Loss of smell and taste, fatigue, but also cardiovascular, renal and neurological complications ... Whether it is a mild form or a severe form, Covid-19 can have consequences for more or less less long term on our body.
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At the end of August, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, for the first time mentioned the condition of patients with long-term symptoms after contamination with Sars-Cov-2.
He called for recognition of their disease and better studies on their after-effects.
What is post-Covid syndrome?
Why do some symptoms persist?
Where is the research at?
Dr Nicolas Barizien
, head of
the functional rehabilitation unit at Hôpital Foch, in the Paris region.
Its service offers multidisciplinary care for patients whose symptoms reappear regularly.
Joséphine Tschirhart,
psychologist at
Foch hospital
, in the Paris region.
Dr Jérôme Marty,
general practitioner and president of the
French Union for free-union medicine (UFML-S).
Véronique Le Thiec,
teacher in schools in the Paris region and member of the
Aprèsj20
association
: Association Covid Long France.
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