Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Hospital Therapy, Russian National Research Medical University named after V.I. N.I. Pirogov, Alexander Chuchalin admitted the likelihood that the coronavirus could be chronic. He said this speaking on Thursday, April 15, at the online meeting of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Rehabilitation after COVID-19”.
“Chronic course of COVID. Pay attention to how I put this question. There are those patients who already suffer this disease twice, three times. I must say in the affirmative that, unfortunately, yes – there are such patients, ”Izvestia quotes Chuchalin.
Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, stated that there is no exact confirmation that people who have had coronavirus can get sick with it again if mutated strains are imported into Russia.
She noted that citizens with impaired immune systems are most at risk.
