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The COVID-19 pandemic — a view of the current state of the problem
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Affiliations- Departments of General Anesthesiology and Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Lazarski University, Warsaw, Poland
- Polish Society of Disaster Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
- First Chair and Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
- Clinic of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
- Department of Emergency Medical Service, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
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Abstract
The current pandemic has raised great global public health concern. The disease name was subsequently recommended as COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) [1,2]. Meanwhile, 2019-nCoV was renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. SARS CoV-2 is considered highly contagious. As of April 1, 2020, more than 883,255 confirmed cases, including more than 44,156 deaths, have been reported worldwide, affecting almost the whole world.
Abstract
The current pandemic has raised great global public health concern. The disease name was subsequently recommended as COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) [1,2]. Meanwhile, 2019-nCoV was renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. SARS CoV-2 is considered highly contagious. As of April 1, 2020, more than 883,255 confirmed cases, including more than 44,156 deaths, have been reported worldwide, affecting almost the whole world.
Keywords
SARS-SoV-2, COVID-19, medicine, pandemic, health care
About this articleTitle
The COVID-19 pandemic — a view of the current state of the problem
Journal
Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal
Issue
Article type
Letter to the Editor
Pages
106-107
Published online
2020-04-03
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DOI
Bibliographic record
Disaster Emerg Med J 2020;5(2):106-107.
Keywords
SARS-SoV-2
COVID-19
medicine
pandemic
health care
Authors
Kurt Ruetzler
Lukasz Szarpak
Krzysztof Jerzy Filipiak
Jerzy Robert Ladny
Jacek Smereka
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