Since the outbreak of COVID-19 that is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in 2020 throughout the world, a lot of aspects of people’ s lives are affected including their psychological status. Follow-up assessment of survivors of this infection showed that they had multiple psychological disorders including depression, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. It is estimated that more than one-third of patients with COVID-19 experience neuropsychiatric symptoms, including headache, paresthesia, and disturbed consciousness. Among patients affected by COVID-19, there are different mechanisms that can cause cognitive dysfunction. COVID-19 can affect the central nervous system (CNS) directly by invasion and indirectly by inducing hypoxia, inflammation, and delirium. The pandemic and fear of infection can also cause anxiety which impairs the cognition as well. By assessing the patients’ cognition and knowing the higher probable cause of cognitive impairment, we can form a better strategy to better treat the impairment. Cognitive behavioral therapy can be effective in reducing the anxiety and cognitive rehabilitation therapy (CRT) can be used to lower the detrimental effects of cognitive impairment caused by COVID-19.

Background: Manyaspects of the severe acute respiratorysyndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV2)pandemicin 2019 have been unclear, especially in newborns, and reports of neonatal diseases are usually associated with perinatal infection. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate clinical and para-clinical manifestations in newborns that contracted the infection after birth. Methods: This observational research was conducted from October 2020 to March 2022 to examine postnatal SARSCoV2 infection in infants admitted to the NICU or neonatal ward at the Children’, s Medical Center in Tehran, Iran. Inclusion in the study was open to neonates who had positive RT-PCR results postnatally. Results: In total, 55 newborns were confirmed to have postnatal SARSCOV2. Fever was the most frequently observed symptom, with 35 (61%). Necrotizing enterocolitis was seen in 18% of neonates, and 30% of them were preterm. Neutropenia was seen in 34% of cases, with five cases having severe neutropenia. All neonates had a normal platelet count. Twenty percent of patients showed C-reactive protein higher than 6 mg/L. Two newborns had co-existing bacterial urinary tract infections. Our neonates didn’, t require antiviral, anticoagulant, or corticosteroid medications, and they recovered while receiving only supportive care. Everyone in the group of newborns was discharged without complications, and there were no deaths. Conclusions: The high rate of fever, high C-reactive protein, and neutropenia in SARSCoV2 neonates suggests that more observational research is needed to compare these symptoms to bacterial sepsis to avoid the overuse of antibiotics in these patients.

Asghar Aghamohammadi, Professor of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Tehran University of Medical Sciences passed away on November 14, 2020, at the age of 69. We were suddenly stunned when we heard about his unexpected death because of SARSCov2 infection. He left us like many other doctors, nurses, and health care providers who were known as health defenders of their countries, in the COVID-19 pandemic. . .