COVID-19 seems to be a multisystem disease, sometimes occurring after a relatively mild acute illness. Clinical management requires whole patient perspective. This relates to patients who have a delayed recovery from an episode of COVID-19 who were managed in the...
Public Health England published a press release on 14 January 2021 which suggested that past COVID-19 infection provides some immunity, but people may still carry and transmit the virus. The study found that past COVID-19 infection provides...
An interesting comment in The Lancet published January 8, 2021, long term follow up of recovered patients with COVID-19. By early January 2021, COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has resulted in more than 83 million confirmed cases and more than...
An editorial in The Lancet dated December 12 looks at this important issue. Multiorgan symptoms after COVID-19 are being reported by an increasing number of patients. These range from cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, headache, palpitations, chest pain, joint...
Many patients who under normal circumstances would have been admitted to hospital, manage their own extremely difficult circumstances at home during the crisis. How do we deal with its effects following COVID-19? Following the active rehabilitation from the start,...
An interesting preprint by Cirulli and Others in medRxiv looks at this important issue. It has become increasingly apparent that a subset of infected individuals develop long term complications following SARS-CoV-2 infection. Doctors continue to report their...
