COVID-19: Features, clinical course and concerns

authors:

avatar Parvaneh Darabi 1 , * , avatar Mehrdad Bagherpour kalo 2 , avatar Kosar Ali 3 , avatar Saeed Safari ORCID 4 , avatar Mahmoud Yousefifard 5 , avatar Mostafa Hosseini ORCID 6

Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public health Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran, Iran.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani, Iraq.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Physiology Research Center, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Journal of Cellular & Molecular Anesthesia: Vol.5, issue 2; e149613
published online: May 07, 2020
article type: Review
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22037/jcma.v5i2.29885

how to cite: Darabi P, Bagherpour kalo M, Ali K, Safari S, Yousefifard M, et al. COVID-19: Features, clinical course and concerns. J Cell Mol Anesth. 2020;5(2):e149613. https://doi.org/10.22037/jcma.v5i2.29885.

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, China . So far, 136 reports from the WHO were reported. In the latest report, 6416828 patients in almost all countries have been infected with the COVID-19. The present study discusses the different aspects of COVID such as emergence, signs and symptoms, comparisons with SARS and MERS, concerns, governments' actions in controlling the virus and a descriptive analysis of the spread and death. The emergence of the coronavirus family in the last two decades has created a public health issue around the world. It has also caused serious damages to infrastructure, economy, culture and communities of countries. Thus, affected governments have taken steps to reduce these concerns such as quarantine, education, traffic control, closure of recreational centers, reduction of working hours etc. Despite strict measures to contain the COVID-19, this virus is still expanding and the question of "what actions should be taken with what political package?" is being asked. To answer this question, it is important to understand the process of disease occurrence and modeling different interventions on changing the natural course of the disease is very important

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