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COVID-19: Look to the Future, Learn from the Past
There is a current pandemic of a new type of coronavirus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The number of confirmed infected cases has been rapidly increasing. This paper analyzes the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 in comparison with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome C...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7692564/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33138262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v12111226 |
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author | Cheng, Zhangkai J. Qu, Hui-Qi Tian, Lifeng Duan, Zhifeng Hakonarson, Hakon |
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description | There is a current pandemic of a new type of coronavirus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The number of confirmed infected cases has been rapidly increasing. This paper analyzes the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 in comparison with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and influenza. COVID-19 is similar to the diseases caused by SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV virologically and etiologically, but closer to influenza in epidemiology and virulence. The comparison provides a new perspective for the future of the disease control, and offers some ideas in the prevention and control management strategy. The large number of infectious people from the origin, and the highly infectious and occult nature have been two major problems, making the virus difficult to eradicate. We thus need to contemplate the possibility of long-term co-existence with COVID-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-76925642020-11-28 COVID-19: Look to the Future, Learn from the Past Cheng, Zhangkai J. Qu, Hui-Qi Tian, Lifeng Duan, Zhifeng Hakonarson, Hakon Viruses Review There is a current pandemic of a new type of coronavirus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The number of confirmed infected cases has been rapidly increasing. This paper analyzes the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 in comparison with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and influenza. COVID-19 is similar to the diseases caused by SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV virologically and etiologically, but closer to influenza in epidemiology and virulence. The comparison provides a new perspective for the future of the disease control, and offers some ideas in the prevention and control management strategy. The large number of infectious people from the origin, and the highly infectious and occult nature have been two major problems, making the virus difficult to eradicate. We thus need to contemplate the possibility of long-term co-existence with COVID-19. MDPI 2020-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7692564/ /pubmed/33138262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v12111226 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Cheng, Zhangkai J. Qu, Hui-Qi Tian, Lifeng Duan, Zhifeng Hakonarson, Hakon COVID-19: Look to the Future, Learn from the Past |
title | COVID-19: Look to the Future, Learn from the Past |
title_full | COVID-19: Look to the Future, Learn from the Past |
title_fullStr | COVID-19: Look to the Future, Learn from the Past |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19: Look to the Future, Learn from the Past |
title_short | COVID-19: Look to the Future, Learn from the Past |
title_sort | covid-19: look to the future, learn from the past |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7692564/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33138262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v12111226 |
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