says i am awesome. to see the real truth i i wish. secrets good. starts december 25th. oz. many people who fall sick with coronavirus in march or april as still not fully recovered desk struggle shows how problematic this virus can bathe. with my trial are trying but as soon as i go the trustor for my body says no way. back in spring hardly anyone was thinking about the long term health effects especially not for young patients who symptoms one mild based on me every week i

think this can't be happening it's just taking so long and i'd much rather be hiking up the mountains like i normally do in summer. now adult is dealing with this still relatively unknown virus this reduces us the most difficult thing is we've only just started to understand the disease better it's like running in a race where the rules keep changing. this is the should cannick lake aged in the alpine foothills of southern germany it's a rehabilitation center specialized in palm and we just saw it as. the 31 year olds in the area has been here for 3 weeks. she had coded 19 back in

march. and if as i says much much harder for me now i've always been very sporty including cycling a lot going off my 55 poles mountain and racing bikes for mr and one for the beach now i can only put out 70 or 80 watts it's crazy now gas africa and i don't think it's way below my training level and i still have pain in my lower lungs when breathing into the home but i found that maria was not in a high risk group and did not require hospital treatment for the virus but more than 5 months off to falling sick she's still not fit enough to work here at the clinic she's been working on have fitness every day in the hope to soon be able to return to have a job as a doctor. i need a certain level of physical fitness to do my job because i don't just sit at

a desk a few cup i have a lot of tasks that are quite physical life changing the bandages on big ones are running back and forth all day from the emergency room to the ward and fast many more as i'm in the operating room i'm standing for 8 hours a day holding some things to an aunt or stitching a wounded. man maria think she probably got close at 19 at work in the hospital. in fact from the very beginning my lungs hurt him and i got him onya and players i thought and so i don't want to influence him calm it completely bypassed my nose and throat area that you normally think are so key i probably inhaled the virus directly as direct in how yet i was wiped out like never before or a moment when i finally got the strength to get out of bed i'd put some music play in a bowl but then have to go back to bed before i even got to read it it was an extreme exhaustion like i have never. ever had the for the democrats and so we're going to

do a 6 minute walking test the aim is to walk as far as you can in the time allotted. a tweak self to falling sick maria went back to work even with pain medication she only managed 9 days in july she tried again when the increased pain levels and exhaustion returned she applied to come here but over the stile breathless where you while walking past half the turning 5 and 6. you managed 720 meters so you've increased from 671 to 720 meters into the air and that i could it was actually the technique of walking that was the limiting factor rather than being out of breath the optimist. the head of the pulmonology department professor rem but could surely says maria isn't an isolated case patients who are young and fit

with no preexisting conditions and requiring no hospital treatment because of it can still experience health problems months after contracting the virus. there's enough. we can see from the number of people seeking help but that there are more patients suffering from post coping problems than we thought even just a few months ago. and it's not just the classic older patients like we initially saw in the statistics. there are young people whose lives have suddenly been turned upside down for example because they're not fit enough to work with. every patient the to arrives at the student clinic suffering from aftereffects of close it 19 undergoes a detailed examination to understand this virus fully doctors from different fields of medicine need to work together but he. says i think it's important to be honest at this point. and to say that we're in

a learning process let's assume through the large amount of new data that we're getting every day here and if we can learn more about this virus. we try to pass on our findings to others to a lot of this data still needs to be checked and. found. that. we don't have a particular treatment strategy and the classic sense because we don't have years of experience to draw. or a book with treatment recommendations from the last go but outbreak we're learning as we go as we care for these patients who are discovering what kinds of problems the virus can produce. and. by now doctors know that 19 affects multiple organs. from lung problems to hair loss to sleep disorders fatigue and neurological disorders. then critical illness paula neuropathy heart problems it would limit plus issues resulting from the treatment

in intensive care. we're seeing a multitude of problems and the list is growing and. i don't think we would have expected such a variety of issues it. has now moved on to the next examination spiral. the aim is to test how her lungs and all that will perform under physical exertion she has one more week at the clinic here in this area. the was. in the german capital has seen well 80000 cases of 1000 since the start of the pandemic of those around 80 percent have recovered officially but christopher not all of them fully restored to health.

thank you. but when i go i really have to catch my breath of course it's tiring and i've never been like this before that is that ashton said if i could go up the stairs it could go straight back down and up again now climbing stairs is the max. whenever i have to walk uphill i get out of breath. i think 19 in mid march. for members of the family in fact. if. we don't really know how we got it we were in austria we're not into role where it was bad we came back on march 1st my oldest daughter went back to kindergarten for 7 days a virus was in the news but not big yet. at the beginning of march most people

didn't see the virus as the major threat all the start of a global pandemic so christopher didn't take his symptoms too seriously. my oldest daughter had started kindergarten the previous summer and since then i've had a permanent cold so i was used to having cold symptoms that i'm. on holiday in austria i still felt fine. and then we came back and i developed a sore throat and a bit of a coffee nothing serious i didn't have a temperature and neither did my partner. or the children had a slight temperature but that's not unusual jordon often do it was all relatively unproblematic. once the quarantine period was over they were considered officially recovered and were allowed to leave the house again but one month later christopher and his partner developed new symptoms. it was quite

a long time before we realised that what we were experiencing was linked to cope at 19 i have allergies and in may the start of the allergy season i suddenly started getting short of breath which i never had before. i usually took an anti-histamine . i had these few problems but nothing special about them so i thought well biology . gotten worse but i didn't link it to covert 19. going out on the balcony because i felt i had to get some fresh air and i'd bend over to catch my breath. and have that about every 2 days. but then it rained and normally that would mean all of my allergy problems disappear. but i still got it and that's when i knew something was wrong with some parts the calm after someone who wasn't there for. so christopher went to a general practitioner. but he wasn't really able to help.

the dr did link my symptoms they covered 19 but they weren't life threatening and not that major. was my fitness levels matched my body weight. but christopher has also recently developed an underactive thyroid which has caused him to put on a lot of weight 17 kilos to date it's not yet clear whether covais it can affect the thyroid gland. in the pasta christopher ran in the marathon but there's no way he could manage that right now. christopher's partner. also experienced problems after having cave at 19 but her symptoms are quite different. he's actually i felt dizzy and it just wouldn't stop what if i went to pick up my daughter romy and everything would just spin and spin. right i was afraid that it

might never stop that this could be the new normal for me i was just up the office . after 4 months dizziness finally tapered off it's now known that covert 19 was shaken you are an article issues. christopher is hoping that his breathing difficulties also disappear in time. international studies show that the lungs and heart can indeed recover from the virus given time a test shows maria's lung function is now back to normal 5 months after she caught the virus. needs it's right on the one hand i feel good because i'm getting lots of therapy here tapi but on the other i keep thinking what will it be like after the therapy when i go back to work tomorrow. or. if i

am all the year and how will things progress with this illness or will there always be issues or will i get back to the same level of fitness and quality of life that i had before 'd. maria was lucky to get a place here waiting lists for patients with post kovac problems. this shouldn't clinical and has a huge number of patients waiting for treatment. maria's time here has now come to an end. in terms of fitness or the tiredness levels fatigue have you noticed any change but we've talked and have that may have changed but i probably won't know until i get back to work and see whether i can cope better with unaided. or if i'm still is tired if i did what i wish to have been awesome to. write about the chest pains. half and that

the pain is better when i have therapy the whole time and i noticed over the weekend where there's less going on or when i had physio wednesday last week back and then the next time on tuesday that the pain in the base of my lungs returned fine but i feel. there's a we're seeing patients who have symptoms some of which we can't really explain. and so we're trying to find answers and treatments and it's like a black box. and whenever i can't explain and convey something in a way that's well founded it leaves a sense of uncertainty i freely admit that. the author effects of the virus to gaining increasing attention in case $1000.00 research at the end of october gemini's university medical center she. launched the

largest study to date on the long term effects of coronavirus. professor thomas bamma and to divest team of doctors are examining 2000 all my case with 19 patients in germany who were no younger positive and are listed in the statistics as recovered so. recently over in crimea we certainly know more than we did back in february march or april that's because now the phase is beginning where we can start to understand the after effects of the virus under fire they are good but the question is how do you define an after effect in the open sea we now have 6 months worth of after effects but of course a virus like. 19 could cause symptoms that don't appear within 6 months. you might have long term effects that emerge after 5 or 10 years.

the study is focusing on the long hot kidneys as well as the nervous system and metabolism. and the way is to my just one of the things taking part back in march he was here in intensive care and in an artificial coma for 7 days when he heard about the study he applied immediately. to shoot with i hope it means that i'm now being monitored so that if there are any after effects they can respond. it's only a lots of people take part that we can gather information that can then be available for others. professor obama and his team are also examining post patients who didn't require hospital treatment the doctors fear that even patients who had mild symptoms could still suffer long term damage.

a wide range of symptoms that we as doctors are confronted with where we need to differentiate carefully. what can be attributed to the virus that may have been directly caused by it when and where do we need to exercise caution and not just put everything down to corona we need to continue doing our work thoroughly as before taking covert 19 into account but top. of the mix so the next thing we'll examine is your liver the study also looks at what the damage to their lives can result directly from being infected with the virus this reduces a skinny you got in the most difficult thing is we've only just started to understand the disease better it's like running in a race where the rules keep changing where some of our findings from $34.00 or 5 months ago already need to be re-evaluated. that's a very important process and it's moving very fast. i don't think we've ever had an

illness where there's been such an enormous increase in knowledge in such a short time norman business tool marks. as part of the study the subjects will be monitored for up to 10 years that's the only way to collect data on possible long term effects. and tongue out. the study is also monitoring the subject sense of taste and smell many patients report an impairment or even complete loss of the senses. so we're trying to draw expertise from all medical fields bringing in all the various disciplines that we now know to be relevant to them so that in the end we get scientific knowledge. on the patient and assessment from different medical specialists for. this.

for a 1000000 people in germany have now recovered from the corona virus writer nina my risking is one of them after a short holiday in valencia she started to show typical symptoms that was in mid march but the test centers and her doctor refused to give her a test so she paid for one her self the result positive. by april she was no longer positive months later she still didn't feel well. it was distressing psychologically does my hair started falling out and they started very slowly there was more here than usual in my brush and in the shower and over breakfast one day my husband said you've got hair all over your shoulders as i felt like i was falling apart. she has also suffered heart palpitations and chronic

fatigue her doctor did not link these new symptoms with her previous coded 19 infection after completing her time in corinth she started writing about what she means through on facebook at the time she didn't know that she would have more symptoms to deal with later triangle had a mild case i was only in hospital briefly didn't need a ventilator and didn't have pneumonia when i posted a photo of my positive corona test and wrote about how it felt to have the virus i realise that many people felt a real need to know more about this illness. people started writing to me because they were experiencing the same things they were sick of but weren't getting help or were seeking advice on how and i discovered that many were feeling very very helpless and he was. she also wrote online about her experiences with the latest symptoms nina and other covert long haul as talk regularly on social media.

one man who's taking part in a medical study abroad and told me that he and his wife have both sustained damage to the heart it's in the paper again today a study by scientists at the university hospital frankfurt shows alarming findings on the impact of the corona virus on the heart the virus can cause serious damage to the heart thankfully it's no slowly coming to light it's scary but i'm glad that the media are now finally reporting on how dangerous this really is. the number of ski has found new friends through the article she's posted online angela cullen from ireland is also struggling financially long after having given 19. she was a singer before she got sick but still. it was all for helen too and. nina and she'll say oh i've got. can i think oh god i've got that to the. know it's getting daughters of us all as well as us all it's been

a great supporter. hard hard to get an anchor but when you need someone else who has the same illness and understands what you're going through it angela is also suffering from her team something many postcodes would suffer as complain of how and why the virus leads to chronic fatigue it's still unclear are you tired all the time too yeah but i have this tiredness that comes really suddenly. asked too often do you get that to that you feel super and then suddenly you get a day where you can't. do anything at all scottish yeah but after 5 months i don't get that as much thankfully. i have and yes but when you get it it's like a flashback of how you start to panic that you're getting sick again when you know you definitely feel afraid it's not to be underestimated i was in great shape i never thought something like this would happen to me it all happened so fast. i

felt like i'd been hit by a steamroller within hours i was unable to move for. the 2 women find it hard to understand how some people can make light of the virus. the reason i'm factor we know that we need to take it seriously because we both know how awful it is. i have lost contact with some people a bit who just roll their eyes. or even friendships and because some people don't recognize the danger. and think these public restrictions are the problem not the virus. and you know mrs have family back in ireland she hasn't stepped on a plane since the start of the pandemic even though she now has antibodies i mean she's too afraid of getting reinfected and fear can be so debilitating. it doesn't help you get better not at all you need to be careful and stay informed

but you can't eliminate everything. back in but. it's now mid september and has to have bligh feels he still can't breathe very well it's now been 6 months since he had the virus. he looks to cure all but in the last 4 weeks i've really struggled at times i've got some days i wasn't able to do any sport at all times and after often some nights i broke up unable to breathe or to the shopping. i did. my chest felt really tight and i couldn't get enough air on the roof because surely. it's better again now but only since 3 days. i guess that. christopher works as an insurance broker so he can do his job even with symptoms but his condition is causing him psychological stress. commission's matsumoto i'm going to the doctor

because it's just not getting better because the i kept thinking i'm improving but i'm not. dr clearly is a lung specialist he's treated more than 30 post covert patients in recent months. many of them were not in a high risk group just like christopher. was one of those who threw the lever he just feels like i'm not getting enough oxygen because i don't know what i should do that. i just don't know what to do with this from his mouth at the moment as he. looks at being unable to breathe properly is scary people with those problems always try to take things easy the end of the mind if that continues and you always have that uncertainty you stop pushing yourself in here and don't build back up your previous training happens and your body suffers as a result and come up. to me to sing i wasn't going to as long as i could breathe through my nose it was ok when the once i couldn't it went downhill rapidly. i

think. it. was over the motives of you whatever a fact this virus had on you and your lungs and alveoli during the acute phase and the most acute phase i can't see any deficits anymore as regards the exchange of oxygen and c o 2 there was this i want to know diffusion impairment as we say miles. it's very important to show that there's no serious physical impairment so that's good that's just because faith needs to be restored confidence in your own body that's for that's the most important thing medicaid's this is just. you know. this is this would never do. this business in generations marriage it's biased justice so i'm really relieved because i now know that there's no damage that's been. by the virus i'll get the other to test out but he already indicated

he doesn't think it's going to be a problem so i can get back to me because we will speak. unlike christopher maria is still not doing well. since returning from the clinic she goes out to the forest as often as she can to go walking and build up her fitness. whatever for the clinic certified me unfit to work i definitely still couldn't do a physical job which is what my career requires my but. i'm supposed to do 24 hour shifts as well where i have to cover the entire hospital how if there's an emergency if someone needs to be resuscitated i get an alarm on my phone and have to run over and i'm then responsible for resuscitating the person that i just couldn't physically do that right now and. she is managing to work but only for a maximum of 7 hours a day and it's mostly office work behind the desk. it's been

a few and i've been sick now for more than 6 months i really can't be bothered with it anymore i just wanted to be over you know to try to ok this is where i am right now and i just have to make the best of it that's. new studies on the after effects of cold feet 19 and now appearing almost daily but for people like maria who is struggling with the symptoms many questions remain. after 6 months christopher bligh has recovered and his next goal is to run another marathon.

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this is news coming to you live from berlin germany reports his highest daily death toll from the crown of virus since the start of the end up in one of the worst affected parts of the country the eastern state of saxony it's not just hospitals that are working to capacity crematory are also struggling to keep up with the surgeon. also coming up relief in sight for.