Boxer Julie Le Galliard, dead of Covid, was immunocompromised

Julie Le Galliard, French boxing champion in 2015, was swept away by the coronavirus despite an up-to-date vaccination course. According to Le Parisien, she suffered from an immunosuppressive blood disease.

How can we leave so young? Despite the injection of two doses of vaccine? Despite a high-level sports career? Questions around the death of Julie Le Galliard, French boxing champion, have been pouring in since the announcement of the terrible news. She was 31 years old and was swept away by the coronavirus on Sunday in Marseille where she had been admitted to intensive care.

According to The Parisian, the vaccine is not involved. Julie Le Galliard suffered from a genetic deficiency, an immunosuppressive blood disease. After contracting the disease, blood tests showed that he had insufficient blood cells in his body. Which considerably complicated his fight against the Covid. Her relatives evoke the ordeal experienced by the boxer, who spent two months in intensive care following the first respiratory problems.

“She went through the last two months of her life in complicated conditions”

“Julie immediately had complications related to Covid-19, explains one of her relatives in Le Parisien. She had to be intubated very early and then she had a carotid problem. She lost a lot of blood and she had to operate for eight hours. She was in a long coma and she went through the last two months of her life in complicated conditions. It is infinitely sad. “

Julie Le Galliard had become French champion in the featherweight (less than 57kg) in 2015, a category not included in the Olympic program. She was part of the France collective in the same generation as Estelle Mossely, crowned Olympic champion in 2016 in the lightweight (less than 60kg).

She was a native of Lorraine before moving to Lyon, then Avignon where she had the first symptoms of Covid. She died in Marseille after a long fight, lost by a body weakened by the immunosuppressive disease from which she suffered.

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