SAR-CoV-2 positive divers should be medically evaluated before returning to scuba diving:
Retrospective study of 145 French military divers with positive PCR COVID test during 10 month period of 2020/21. 2 hospitalized, 143 not.
3% had persistent LC symptoms
29% had significant findings on spirometry or chest CT scan. Normalization was obtained within 3 months. The median time to return to diving was 45 days.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.1022370/full
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