Discussion
The WHO pronounces “older people and people of all ages with pre-existing medical conditions (such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, lung disease, or cancer) appear to develop serious illness more often than others”(1). Our 12-year-old patient who has two different lung diseases, bronchiolitis obliterans and a bronchial asthma, which was uncontrolled at the time, contracted the coronavirus. The boy showed no typical symptoms of a COVID-19 infection such as fever, dry cough or tiredness. He did not have to use his asthma spray salbutamol because of dysponea. He only complained about body aches for one day. Interestingly, the COVID-19 smear was positive for SARS-CoV-2 for more than 3 weeks. In some cases, viral genetic material could be detected up to 42 days after the onset of symptoms (4). Inhalation steroids may be the cause of prolonged virus detection, but there is currently no data on this in literature. Last but not least, it is interesting that the boy did not infect any other people with the coronavirus even before being diagnosed, for example in our consultation.