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Paris, September 11, 2020: mysterious post-Covid syndrom worries the France. Le Monde talks about it at a very sensitive time for France, which has struggled in recent weeks with a steady increase in cases of Coronavirus. The positive rate of the Covid-19 tests went from 2.1% last August 10 to 5.4%, according to the latest budget of the public health agency. In the last 24 hours, the record of infections in the country since the beginning of the pandemic has been reached, with 9,843 new cases.
Coronavirus Italy, the newsletter of September 11
In the Foch a Southerners, a small commune not far from Paris, doctors are forced to fight the influx of patients who requested consultations after the one-month period of distrust and after returning to normal life, including at work. The reason? Despite normal medical examinations, people who contracted the virus during the first wave continue to have persistent symptoms of Covid-19. “The big question is precisely this: to understand if Covid-19 has long-term consequences. And if so, what are they,” Nicolas Barizien, sports doctor and head of functional rehabilitation at Foch hospital, told Le Monde. .
Among the most recurrent symptoms that patients who have become ill in recent months complain about are respiratory difficulties, palpitations, physical and mental exhaustion that often force them to stay home in case of illness. This despite the fact that clinical tests performed by specialists are eerily normal. Mystery within the mystery: these psychophysical problems are mostly women between 40 and 50 years old, workers, officially recovered – complete with a negative test repeated several times – and who had also contracted the coronavirus very mildly. In some cases the complaints were continuous and in others they reappeared after a period of good general health.
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