Corticosteroid Injections and COVID-19 Infection Risk.

The article examines whether a corticosteroid injection increases the risk of contracting COVID-19 or alters the clinical course of a subsequent infection. It mentions that therapeutic corticosteroids have wide-ranging physiologic effects. It also mentions that intra-articular corticosteroid injections are known to have systemic endocrine effects similar to those of epidural corticosteroid injections.