INFECTION | BRAIN

First Case of Covid-19 Encephalitis: A Possibility of Virus Latency and Reactivation

New evidence that SARS-CoV-2 infiltrates the brain (and its ramifications)

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“They’re just not thinking that the brain could be the site of the problem,” says Mattew Anderson, associate professor of pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, regarding the potential neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19.

That’s where I’ve left off previously in “4 Clues That SARS-CoV-2 Invades the Brain”[published 14/3/2020; updated 26/3/2020]. In brief, all previous coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS are known to be neuroinvasive. SARS-CoV-2, being a coronavirus itself, is likely to be no different.

And, indeed, it’s not.