Systematic Evaluation of Chronic Injury Caused by COVID-19

Dear Colleagues,

The daily increasing cases and deaths caused by COVID-19 continue to shock the whole world, since the first reported case in Wuhan City in China in December 2019 and the WHO declared the global pandemic in March 2020. Millions of people are now infected, and billions are involved in the lockdown. The mysterious question is regarding its variable mortality rate across nations. China reported an approximately 3.9% mortality rate, however it has increased to over 12% mortality in Italy, Belgium, and the UK. Has the virus evolved through the generation of many cascades of human to human transfection? Could race be a determinate factor of the high mortality? There are simply too many outstanding questions that require collective efforts from multi-disciplinary scientists. The symptoms of COVID-19 are initially reported to be flu-like symptoms including fever, sore throat, cough, fatigue, and shortness of breath. Nevertheless, some have reported less-typical symptoms such as profound loss of smell, loss of taste, diarrhea, and to the very extreme that there are no symptoms at all for some confirmed patients.

In this Special Issue, we are interested to see what chronic injuries may be caused by COVID-19? Submissions could be case reports from hospitals, clinical observation from ICUs, or clinical consultations of follow-ups. As the world is tackling this great challenge, we will have an open mind in reviewing your manuscript in an effort to collect as much evidence as possible.

Dr. Yung-Chih Chen
Guest Editor

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