When Jennifer, 36, caught Covid-19 in March 2020 she suffered mild flu-like symptoms.
But as the months passed, she began suffering severe chest pains, fevers and had difficulty breathing.
Jennifer says she was misdiagnosed and not taken seriously for months until recently, when she learnt that the virus had caused irreversible, severe damage to her heart.
With the support group AprèsJ20, Jennifer is lobbying the French Government to recognise Long Covid as a major, long-term health condition (Affection Longue Durée, or ALD).
This would mean that the state would cover 100% of the costs of their treatment, so sufferers would no longer have to pay upfront and wait to be reimbursed by social security or private health insurance, if they have it.
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