COVID-19: a short message to rheumatologists
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Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poland
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Department of Rheumatology and Osteoporosis, Józef Struś Memorial Multidisciplinary Municipal Hospital
in Poznań, Poland
Online publication date: 2021-09-08
Reumatologia 2021;(Konferencja Pacjent post-COVID-owy. Co zostaje, a co się zmienia? 1):130-133
ABSTRACT
For several months, SARS-CoV-2 virus infection, which sometimes causes critical COVID-19 disease primarily with lung involvement, has been the one and only medical and scientific topic. The widespread occurrence of this type of coronavirus has led to a global pandemic and a huge social confusion that has had and will have a significant impact on our lives.
From the point of view of a specialist in rheumatology and internal medicine, currently performing duties of a medical doctor of infectious diseases in the department of rheumatology in a temporarily uniform hospital in Poznań, Poland, various questions and reflections arise.
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