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4 days ago · On 31 December 2019, the outbreak was traced to a novel strain of coronavirus, which was given the interim name 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization, later renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.
- SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2)...
- Rna Viruses
Orthornavirae is a kingdom of viruses that have genomes made...
- Coronavirus Diseases
The first coronavirus disease was discovered in the late...
- Rhinovirus
The rhinovirus (from the Ancient Greek: ῥίς, romanized: rhis...
- Human Coronavirus Nl63
Human coronavirus NL63 (HCoV-NL63) is a species of...
- Coronaviridae
Coronaviridae is a family of enveloped, positive-strand RNA...
- History of Coronavirus
v. t. e. The history of coronaviruses is an account of the...
- Betacoronavirus
Betacoronavirus (β-CoVs or Beta-CoVs) is one of four genera...
- SARS-CoV-2
3 days ago · COVID-19, highly contagious respiratory illness, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 was first detected in 2019 in Wuhan, China. A large proportion of infections in China were undocumented before travel restrictions and other control measures were implemented in late January 2020.
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4 days ago · Overview. Based on the current evidence, a person with any of the conditions listed below is more likely to get very sick from COVID-19. This means that a person with one or more of these conditions who gets very sick from COVID-19 (has severe illness from COVID-19) is more likely to: Be hospitalized.
4 days ago · Infection with SARS-CoV2 produced an illness known as coronavirus disease 2019 ; the illness was characterized primarily by fever, cough, and shortness of breath. The outbreak began in late 2019 in Wuhan , China, when a patient with pneumonia of unknown cause was admitted to a local hospital.
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- What is a pandemic?A pandemic is an outbreak of infectious disease that occurs over a wide geographical area and that is of high prevalence. A pandemic generally affe...
- What have been some of the world’s deadliest pandemics?Throughout history, there have been many deadly pandemics, but the Black Death and the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 rank among the most lethal. Th...
- What causes a pandemic?Pandemics can be caused by several factors. For example, in some cases, a new strain or subtype of virus that first emerged in animals jumps to hum...
- How do pandemics end?Pandemics typically slow and come to an end on their own, though the process may be accelerated through effective preventive strategies, such as im...
4 days ago · Following the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak, 5 additional coronaviruses have been discovered in humans, most recently the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, believed to have originated in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV are particularly pathogenic in humans and are associated with high mortality.
3 days ago · COVID-19 Management: Practice Essentials and Answers From the Experts. Join our expert faculty as Dr Cecconi and Dr Torres discuss the latest on best practices for COVID-19 management. 1.00 CME. 60 min. This COVID-19 resource page, curated by Medscape, is the most comprehensive source of information on COVID-19 for HCPs worldwide.
