Pandemic meets epidemic: COVID-19 and neurodegenerative diseases
Science Communication Opinion Share Post In this opinion piece, Andrei Surguchov, Professor of Neurology at University of Kansas Medical Center and Chief Editor of Biochemistry Research International, reflects on the impact the COVID-19 has had on the epidemic of neurodegenerative diseases and dementia. Lack of an active treatment strategy and vaccine makes SARS-CoV-2 infection an immense threat to humankind. The COVID-19 pandemic arrived when the world was already facing other rising health problems, one of the most serious of which is the epidemic of neurodegenerative diseases and dementia....