Dr. John Lambert:

Everybody is different but, yes, there is an element of immunosuppression that goes along with patients catching repeated episodes of Covid. It may be that certain patients are predisposed to having these kinds of problems. Another issue is that one's immune system goes down and one gets reactivation of other infections. Everybody has infections in their body. Lots of patients get shingles after getting Covid. Why do they suddenly get shingles? Shingles appears in the setting of immune suppression. My brother got Covid in January in America and he broke out in a painful rash on three parts of his body. He sent me a picture of it and I told him he had shingles. He thought it was his eczema. Mulitdermatomal shingles only occurs in patients who have really low immune systems, such as cancer, transplant or AIDS patients. We have a lot to learn about Covid and the public should be aware that for some patients, it is not just a simple flu virus.