The Effects of SARS COV 2 Infection - Does a Depression Pandemic Follow?

ABSTRACT

Viral infections can be a cause of CNS infection, causing mental and neurological symptoms. Even under normal conditions, good mental health is of paramount importance to the functioning of society. Healthcare workers are critical to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, but may have to leave work if their mental health is affected. We present the favorable evolution of a patient, a 55 year-old woman, medical staff with a history of viral infection with SARS CoV-2 (August 2020). which is brought by a crew of the Ambulance service in the emergency department (ED) service (December 2020) for multi-drug ingestion for suicide. After treatment and investigations she is transferred to the "Elena Doamna" Psychiatric Hospital. After 4 days of hospitalization, he returns to the emergent' department by transfer from the Psychiatric Hospital for underlying seizures, confusion syndrome. During her admission to the neurology service of the "Sf Ap. Andrei" Emergency Clinical Hospital, the patient benefited from numerous clinical and paraclinical investigations. which prodded information abut the patient's neuropsychiatric evolution.