Road to recovery: Does COVID-19 exact heavy mental toll on the infected?
02 Jun 2020
byJairia Dela Cruz
Most COVID-19 patients come back from their illness unscathed in psychiatric terms, presuming that infection with SARS-CoV-2 follows a similar course to that with SARS-CoV or MERS-CoV, a study reports. In the acute stage, however, SARS-CoV-2 may cause delirium, although there is little to suggest that neuropsychiatric complications can occur beyond such a short-term syndrome.
