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.

frontiersin.org/journals/physi

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@PapyrusBrigade That's everybody at this stage. Nobody escaped that virus. Are you really suggesting that every diver needs to get checked out?

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