The coronavirus conundrum - From pandemic to endemic COVID-19 – Should we continue taking care of ourselves?

Pacheco-Romero J. · Revista Peruana de Ginecologia y Obstetricia (2023) · DOI: 10.31403/rpgo.v69i2478

Resumen

It seems that things are calming down with SARS-Cov-2, as there are no longer daily reports and notes of findings of new variants and subvariants of the virus, as well as clinical changes in symptomatology, hospitalizations, severity, and deaths due to COVID-19. We do not know how we should guard against viral infection during the impending endemic phase of the disease, knowing the complex health problems of prolonged COVID if we contract the virus. In this article we describe the latest known coronavirus mutations, how they affect certain organs and systems, the advantage of a better response to infection in people with healthy lifestyle, the rebound of symptomatology, reinfections at the time of the vaccine, prolonged COVID, excess mortality of physicians who attended the first waves without vaccine, and some news and knowledge about COVID in the pregnant woman and her fetus and newborn; the future of the newborn born to a mother with COVID remains unknown. In the COVID endemic, should we continue to protect ourselves? How? © Peruvian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology. All Rights Reserved.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos