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According to one estimate, several hundred thousand infected people suffer from Covid long. Symptoms that persist are fatigue, shortness of breath and neurological problems. A long Covid patient testifies for 19/20 Hours.
Since Matthieu Lestage contracted Covid-19 15 months ago, the symptoms of the disease have persisted. Thus, even to walk, he is obliged to have a wheelchair by his side. “He is there to assist me when, unfortunately, my legs no longer support me“. After five minutes, his legs give out and he is forced to complete his walk in the wheelchair.
Since October 2020, he can no longer drive or work. A blow for this hyperactive trader, former soldier and great sportsman. Suffering from persistent tremors and an exhausted nervous system, he spends most of his days on his couch. Matthieu Lestage has been followed for more than a year by Professor Salmon-Céron, one of the first to be interested in the long Covid. If doctors today recognize the disease, they struggle to explain it. Faced with the limited responses of medicine, patients organize themselves into associations to break their loneliness.