Department of Systems Medicine, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy.
Unit of Neurology, IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), Italy.
J Neurol. 2021 Nov;268(11):3961-3968. doi: 10.1007/s00415-021-10545-2. Epub 2021 Apr 12.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) appeared in December 2019 in the Chinese city of Wuhan and has quickly become a global pandemic. The disease is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type-2 (SARS-CoV-2), an RNA beta coronavirus phylogenetically similar to SARS coronavirus. To date, more than 132 million cases of COVID19 have been recorded in the world, of which over 2.8 million were fatal ( https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html ). A huge vaccination campaign has started around the world since the end of 2020. The availability of vaccines has raised some concerns among neurologists regarding the safety and efficacy of vaccination in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) taking immunomodulatory or immunosuppressive therapies.
冠状病毒病(COVID-19)于 2019 年 12 月在中国武汉市出现,并迅速成为全球性大流行。该疾病由严重急性呼吸系统综合征冠状病毒 2 型(SARS-CoV-2)引起,这是一种 RNA 乙型冠状病毒,在系统发育上与严重急性呼吸系统综合征冠状病毒相似。迄今为止,全世界已记录超过 1.32 亿例 COVID-19 病例,其中超过 280 万人死亡(https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html)。自 2020 年底以来,全球已开始大规模接种疫苗。疫苗的出现引起了一些神经科医生对接受免疫调节或免疫抑制治疗的多发性硬化症(MS)患者疫苗接种安全性和有效性的关注。