A 74-year-old man with past medical history of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus was admitted for COVID-19 pneumonia. Due to unfavorable disease progression, ten days later, the patient was admitted to the intensive care unit and intubated, requiring periods of prone position and systemic corticosteroid treatment. During the following weeks, the patient developed several infectious complications successfully managed with systemic antibiotics and herpes simplex infection of the left upper lip, treated with acyclovir 400 mg twice daily for 10 days.
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