Post-COVID...four years after the pandemic

Four years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Radio Television Suisse recently devoted a special CQFD programme on post-COVIDan illness characterised by symptoms persisting for more than three months or even years after infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Dr Mayssam Nehme, head of the Population Epidemiology Unit and of the post-COVID consultation in the Department of Primary Care Medicine at the HUG responds in the light of the latest clinical knowledge and research on post-COVID.

In particular, she addresses the question of recurrent symptoms and their possible chronicity, as well as the risk factors and protective factors of the disease. We also learn in this interview that mechanisms such as disruption of the autonomic nervous system and deregulation of the immune system potentially play a role in the persistence of post-COVID symptoms.

Point J (RTS) also provides you with the latest information on post-COVID with testimonials from several patients affected by the disease in French-speaking Switzerland.