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Characteristics of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Korea From the Mass Infection Perspective
On December 31, 2019, the Chinese government officially announced that the country had some cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause. By February 8, 2020, there were 24 confirmed cases in Korea, and the number of cases has steadily increased since then. On March 9, 2020, the cumulative number of con...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7280812/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32498139 http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.20.072 |
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description | On December 31, 2019, the Chinese government officially announced that the country had some cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause. By February 8, 2020, there were 24 confirmed cases in Korea, and the number of cases has steadily increased since then. On March 9, 2020, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Korea was 7382, with 51 deaths. This study examines the characteristics of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak from the perspective of the large-scale number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths. This study is significant in that it emphasizes the precautionary principle in preventing and managing infectious diseases, and makes suggestions for urgently needed public health policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-72808122020-06-17 Characteristics of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Korea From the Mass Infection Perspective Kang, Yun-Jung J Prev Med Public Health Perspective On December 31, 2019, the Chinese government officially announced that the country had some cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause. By February 8, 2020, there were 24 confirmed cases in Korea, and the number of cases has steadily increased since then. On March 9, 2020, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Korea was 7382, with 51 deaths. This study examines the characteristics of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak from the perspective of the large-scale number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths. This study is significant in that it emphasizes the precautionary principle in preventing and managing infectious diseases, and makes suggestions for urgently needed public health policies. Korean Society for Preventive Medicine 2020-05 2020-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7280812/ /pubmed/32498139 http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.20.072 Text en Copyright © 2020 The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Perspective Kang, Yun-Jung Characteristics of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Korea From the Mass Infection Perspective |
title | Characteristics of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Korea From the Mass Infection Perspective |
title_full | Characteristics of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Korea From the Mass Infection Perspective |
title_fullStr | Characteristics of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Korea From the Mass Infection Perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Characteristics of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Korea From the Mass Infection Perspective |
title_short | Characteristics of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Korea From the Mass Infection Perspective |
title_sort | characteristics of the covid-19 outbreak in korea from the mass infection perspective |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7280812/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32498139 http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.20.072 |
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