The Club of Fatiguing Viruses

The coronavirus pandemic is added to the list of viruses that cause fatigue.

Agustín Muñoz-Sanz
5 min readAug 18, 2021

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One of the most intriguing aspects of the current Betacoronavirus pandemic is persistence. This issue signifies a long duration of symptoms, signs, and analytical alterations. How long? During several weeks or months after acute infection. And it happens regardless of the intensity of the initial attack.

The persistence of symptoms is not a new issue in infectious medicine. Now I bring it up ─COVID-19─ because of its…

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Agustín Muñoz-Sanz

Medical Doctor (Infectious Diseases specialist/Professor of Medicine) and writer (narrative, theater).