https://time.com/5832106/france-coronavirus-case-december/
In a study published in the International Journal of Microbial Agents, doctors at a hospital north of Paris reviewed retrospective samples of 14 patients treated for atypical pneumonia between early December and mid-January. Among those were the records of Amirouche Hammar, a 42-year-old fishmonger from Algeria who has lived in France for years and had no recent travel history.
Hammar told French broadcaster BFM-TV on Tuesday that he drove himself to a hospital emergency unit at 5 a.m. one morning in late December because he felt very sick, with chest pains and breathing difficulties.
Hammar was admitted to the hospital with symptoms doctors say were consistent with COVID-19 patients in China and Italy. When doctors retested his old sample, they found it was positive for the coronavirus.
In a study published in the International Journal of Microbial Agents, doctors at a hospital north of Paris reviewed retrospective samples of 14 patients treated for atypical pneumonia between early December and mid-January. Among those were the records of Amirouche Hammar, a 42-year-old fishmonger from Algeria who has lived in France for years and had no recent travel history.
Hammar told French broadcaster BFM-TV on Tuesday that he drove himself to a hospital emergency unit at 5 a.m. one morning in late December because he felt very sick, with chest pains and breathing difficulties.
Hammar was admitted to the hospital with symptoms doctors say were consistent with COVID-19 patients in China and Italy. When doctors retested his old sample, they found it was positive for the coronavirus.
