Coronavirus complications DW Documentary
DW Documentary
virus. They’re looking in particular at the lungs, heart, kidneys and liver, as well as the nervous system and metabolism. Christopher Bley from Berlin would A growing number of people who recover from COVID welcome the opportunity to be included in a study -19 are experiencing long-term health problems. This like that. The 35-year-old feels he isn’t getting the includes younger patients without pre-existing support he needs from doctors. Ever since the father conditions who had only mild symptoms with the of two contracted the virus, he has been battling virus. How are doctors and patients responding? shortness of breath. For a long time, he hoped he would heal naturally, but the problem persists. Writer The COVID-19 disease is triggered by the SARS-CoV-2 Nina Marewski from Frankfurt feels similarly let down virus, and can affect multiple organs. The symptoms by doctors. She says they either ignore her or don’t of the initial illness are now well known. But what take her seriously. She has been writing about her about the long-term effects of coronavirus? Not experience with coronavirus online, and is giving a everyone who gets COVID-19 makes a full recovery voice to other post-COVID "long haulers". This afterwards. A growing number of people are documentary accompanies three people who are experiencing reduced physical and abilities and struggling with the aftereffects of the virus. What do cognitive symptoms. One such patient is 31-year old the health problems mean for them and how do they junior doctor Maria. Five months after falling sick, she deal with the uncertainty about whether they will is still unable to work normally. ever make a full recovery? In October, Germany’s University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein launched the largest study to date on the long-term effects of coronavirus. Teams of doctors specialized in various fields of medicine are planning to examine several thousand former COVID19 patients who have officially "recovered" from the
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