The Club of Fatiguing Viruses

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

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 peculiarities. And because it seems that it will have a future prominence. Coronavirus infection is complex. It is also a new disease with a proven capacity to surprise everyone.

This circumstance does not allow us still to ensure the firmness of some concepts. I mean, for example, the entity’s name, frequency, and the definition of the clinical profile or the laboratory spectrum. So in any way, although it is a new problem, it smells like an old one.

Coronavirus infection is complex. It is also a new disease with a proven capacity to surprise everyone.

What is your name?

Not necessary to be Aristotle, Pliny the old, or Charles Linnaeus to understand the importance of naming everything. People, animals, plants, things, or diseases.