COVID-19 can affect your endocrine system. This has been proved by researchers. It also affects the thyroid gland which is a part of the endocrine system. Now a team of researchers from the University of Milan in Italy has showed that some patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 seem to experience inflammation of the thyroid gland that is different from thyroid inflammation caused by other viruses. The study presented virtually at ENDO 2021 indicated that one-third of the participants still had signs of thyroid inflammation after three months even though their thyroid function had normalised. An earlier 2020 study by