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A Less Virulent COVID-19 Pneumonia

Since its initial outbreak, COVID-19 saw a high death rate with those infected typically presenting with severe respiratory distress along with multi-organ involvement. However, over the course of the pandemic, particularly due to the lower age of those diagnosed with the disease and a greater under...

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Autores principales: George, Andrew, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7450893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32864252
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9426
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description Since its initial outbreak, COVID-19 saw a high death rate with those infected typically presenting with severe respiratory distress along with multi-organ involvement. However, over the course of the pandemic, particularly due to the lower age of those diagnosed with the disease and a greater understanding of the risk posed to certain at-risk populations, a new disease course seems to be more prominent with an overall lower mortality among those diagnosed. We present a typical example of such a case here, showing a less lethal course of COVID-19 occurring in late June amidst the resurgence of new daily cases in the United States.
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spelling pubmed-74508932020-08-28 A Less Virulent COVID-19 Pneumonia George, Andrew Ganti, Latha Cureus Emergency Medicine Since its initial outbreak, COVID-19 saw a high death rate with those infected typically presenting with severe respiratory distress along with multi-organ involvement. However, over the course of the pandemic, particularly due to the lower age of those diagnosed with the disease and a greater understanding of the risk posed to certain at-risk populations, a new disease course seems to be more prominent with an overall lower mortality among those diagnosed. We present a typical example of such a case here, showing a less lethal course of COVID-19 occurring in late June amidst the resurgence of new daily cases in the United States. Cureus 2020-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7450893/ /pubmed/32864252 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9426 Text en Copyright © 2020, George et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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George, Andrew
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7450893/
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