Abstract:
Relapses of herpes simplex during the COVID-19 pandemic in patients with or without respiratory symptoms alarm us about the possibility of SARS-CoV-2 infection in these patients. Both the stress caused during the pandemic and the invasion of SARS-CoV-2 itself are generative elements of immunodeficiency in humans, a situation that can be used by the herpes virus to reactivate and infect the host .