It has been three months since Covid-19 appeared in Wuhan province in China. Today, all countries are affected by this new coronavirus. Despite the daily studies on the virus, we still don't know a lot about this disease. Every evening, the government takes stock of the figures linked to Covid-19. Since February 15, 2020 and until today, April 2, 2020, 4,042 people have died in France. This figure does not yet take into account the deaths outside the hospital. However, 9,444 people came out cured from our hospitals and many more from their homes. But what do we really know about the consequences of the cure of this disease?
A healing is performed when two tests are negative 48 hours apart. The absence of clinical symptoms and abnormalities on the X-rays are also to be taken into account to declare a cure. However, they alone are not enough to effect a cure. Only a laboratory test can confirm this because some people are asymptomatic.
People with mild symptoms will have no sequelae , say several medical specialists, including pulmonologists. It is sometimes possible that some abnormalities on the scanners persist, but which will always regress quickly according to the doctors.
Studies conducted on the side effects of SARS in 2003 are reassuring, although they should still be taken with quotation marks. Indeed, these two diseases, although similar on certain points, do not behave exactly in the same way. It is therefore still too early to definitively draw conclusions on the remission of patients.
Like a flu, healing takes a few days and it is possible to be a little weakened while the body recovers completely. Covid-19, like other pneumopathies, affects the lungs. But fortunately, the regenerative capacity of the lungs is quite good in most patients.
However, in the most extreme cases of resuscitation, the lungs being severely affected, the latter can have sequelae . Patients coming out of several weeks of intensive resuscitation may, in some cases, need a little oxygen. The goal is to help their lungs during their complete recovery.
Other problems may arise, but they stem from the fact of intubation. Inflammation of the throat may appear but without any seriousness for the body. Only a persistent and unpleasant feeling of irritation while the tissues of the trachea heal.
Several people around the world have tested positive for Coronavirus again after being declared officially cured. However, these cases are extremely rare and scientists would have several possible explanations. One of them would be that the virus remains in a tiny quantity in the body of a person, explaining that it is therefore retested positive for Covid-19.
