Jornal de Pesquisa do Cérebro

Brain Injury and SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Bidirectional Pathways

Abstract

Hayder M. Al-kuraishy, Ali I. Al-Gareeb, Marta Chagas Monteiro and Hanan J. Al-Saiddy

Coronavirus Infection Disease (COVID-19) is a recent pandemic infectious disease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV2), ongoing in Wuhan, China that earlier known as Wuhan pneumonia. COVID-19 was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic disease on March 11th, 2020. As of October, 2020, there have been total of 34,392,166 confirmed cases with 1,022,391 deaths globally.