COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus. This new virus and disease were unknown before the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It predominantly affects the lungs and the direct evidence of this viral infection in the nervous system is rare. But the nonhuman coronaviruses that they are capable of being neurotropic.
However COVID-19 can affect anyone whose neurologic condition causes breathing problems, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson’s disease, and some muscular dystrophies. People whose immune systems are compromised or who take immune-suppressing drugs—such as those with multiple sclerosis (MS), myasthenia gravis, and neuromyelitis optica—are also vulnerable. Other than these patients with neurological disorders like epilepsy, headache and dementia should also need some attention with COVID-19 infection…
