PARIS, March 13 — Difficulty breathing, concentrating and even walking: five months after being diagnosed with Covid-19, Violaine Cousineau continues to suffer severe symptoms that prevent her from resuming normal life.
A mother of two girls aged 12 and 15, she is one of hundreds of expected patients of a new clinic in Montreal specialising in long-term health impacts of Covid-19, or “long Covid.” She had no pre-existing health problems and even enjoyed “super cardio” hiking on nearby mountains on weekends.After contracting the illness in October, she spent a trying first week, including being bedridden for three days.
In Quebec, which has recorded more than 294,000 cases of the coronavirus, “it could be 10 to 30 per cent of patients who have complications,” says Emilia Liana Falcone, director of the new clinic set up by the Montreal Clinical Research Institute , which is affiliated with the University of Montreal. Opened in February, the clinic’s doctors aim to understand the long-term complications of Covid and their duration in order to then determine the causes and develop treatments.
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