Georges Laraque, who had been training for a marathon before contracting COVID-19, says, 'I can't even get up without losing my breath.'
Laraque, releasing a series of videos this weekend on his Facebook page from a Montreal-area hospital, says he has contracted"I have pneumonia in both my lungs," he said Saturday. "They’re affected by the COVID because I have asthma. I need to have oxygen blowing through my nose.", said he had been running 10 kilometers a day to prepare for a marathon before he came down with symptoms.Laraque, speaking in both French and English, had a couple coughing fits while talking.
Laraque said he originally went to the hospital on April 26 for a test because he was having symptoms. He was given a chest X-ray and was sent home with a cortisone prescription, he said. He was called back the next day to say the X-ray showed pneumonia and the day after, he was able to get a test.
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