Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and COVID-19 in a Man

Doctors from the Harvard Medical School published a case report of a man who developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) after contracting COVID-19. CJD is considered the human form of mad cow disease. Misfolded proteins or prions are seen in CJD. Did the SARS-CoV-2 cause the CJD, or is it something else? The history went like this….