Symptoms of Covid-19 still present several weeks after declaring the disease, this is what more and more doctors are reporting to an infectious disease specialist in Hauts-de-Seine. For Benjamin Davido, professor at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches, “it’s never seen before”.
“In general, there is a respite, what is called a honeymoon between the 15th day, date of end of the illness and the 30th day, then it starts again. Like a spool of thread upside down, the signs reappear one by one, “he testified to the Parisian.
“Like a little old man”
According to the infectiologist, it is mainly women, aged about 40, who report suffering from extreme fatigue and muscle pain, sometimes up to six weeks after the first symptoms appear. This is confirmed by Dominique Lemaire, sick with Covid-19 for 65 days. Questioned by France Bleu Paris, he evokes permanent tiredness, dizziness, cough and “a feeling of oppression”. So much so that at 45, he now feels “like a little old man”.
A phenomenon that remains rare despite everything according to Benjamin Davido, “about 5% of cases of Covid”. According to Yazdan Yazdanpanah, an infectious disease specialist at Bichat Hospital in Paris, the reappearance of the symptoms could concern people “who have not developed antibodies, perhaps because they are immunocompromised”.
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