Euro Surveill
Swiss Armed Forces, Medical Services, Ittigen, Switzerland.
Published: September 2020
In March 2020, we observed an outbreak of COVID-19 among a relatively homogenous group of 199 young (median age 21 years; 87% men) Swiss recruits. By comparing physical endurance before and in median 45 days after the outbreak, we found a significant decrease in predicted maximal aerobic capacity in COVID-19 convalescent but not in asymptomatically infected and SARS-CoV-2 naive recruits. This finding might be indicative of lung injury after apparently mild COVID-19 in young adults.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.36.2001542 | DOI Listing |
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