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The SARS-COV2 (COVID-19) Pandemic: What Clinicians should knew

2020; Volume: 10; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21608/aeji.2020.93424

2090-7613

Mayssa Saeed, Tarik Zaher, Soha Khorshed, Mohamed Saraya, Taghrid Mahmoud, Mohamed Emara, Aya Mahrous, Nabila Ahmed, Fathia M. Khattab, Mona Abdelmaksoud, Emad Emara, Ahmed Bekhit, Khaled Ahmed, Mohammed Eleda, Nadien Khaled Fahim,

COVID-19 and healthcare impacts

In late 2019, a novel coronavirus, now designated SARS-CoV-2, emerged and was identified as the cause of an outbreak of acute respiratory illness in Wuhan, a city in China, named as COVID-19. Since then the waves of the virus exponentially hit many countries around the globe with high rates of spread associated with variable degrees of morbidity and mortality. The WHO announced the pandemic state of the infection in March 2020 and by June 1st 2020 more than 6 million individuals and more than 370 thousands case fatalities were documented worldwide. In this article, we discussed many aspects regarding this emerged infection based on the available evidence aiming to help clinician to improve not only their knowledge but also their practices toward this infection.