Not a current driver, but one time Minardi driver, 45year old Tarso Marques has been VERY seriously ill after a bad Covid infection. Apparently he lost 85% lung capacity in a very short time, has spent an awful time in hospital, and even now is still suffering from a heavily reduced lung capacity.
He is still in hospital but seems to be on the mend, and Doctors expect him to recover.
At one stage he was ill enough to have written his will.
In Tarso's. words:
“I thought it was all right – I was always very healthy, I had good nutrition, I did physical activity,” said Marques. “I thought that nothing would happen to me. What I really cared about was my parents.
“Two hours after this new diagnosis, I was already short of breath. Another hour and I couldn't breathe anymore. Now, speaking in this interview, I still only have 30% of my lung capacity.
“The first three, four days in the hospital were like terror. You are practically dead there. It destroys you. I got so much medicine – every three hours a tray with an injection, corticosteroids [anti-inflammatory steroids]. I spent nine days without sleep, I used oxygen at the limit.
“And it happened one thing after another – stomach pain, there is an allergy out of nowhere in my legs, I am still full of spots, I was sobbing for two whole days, I had a hellish headache. The virus is attacking every place.
"It looks like it doesn't give up. I thought I was going to die. I even made a will. I stayed like that for two more days. When I started to get better, at night I was afraid that improvement was a false alarm.”
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/mina ... d/5805208/
Best wishes for Tarso to make a full and speedy recovery.