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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study

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Characteristics of patients who died were in line with the MuLBSTA score, an early warning model for predicting mortality in viral pneumonia, and further investigation is needed to explore the applicability of the Mu LBSTA scores in predicting the risk of mortality in 2019-nCoV infection.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2020-01-30 and is currently open access. It has received 16282 citations till now.

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COVID-19 for the Cardiologist: Basic Virology, Epidemiology, Cardiac Manifestations, and Potential Therapeutic Strategies

TL;DR: The virology and potential mechanism of injury form the basis for a discussion of potential disease-modifying therapies, and several mechanisms of injury are proposed with a focus on cardiovascular complications.
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Severe SARS-CoV-2 infections: practical considerations and management strategy for intensivists.

TL;DR: This new emergency is a zoonotic disease with unknown animal reservoir and with evidence of person-to-person transmission that involved a novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (aka 2019-nCoV) that involved cases of respiratory illness in humans appearing first in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
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Peptide-like and small-molecule inhibitors against Covid-19.

TL;DR: In-silico approaches are utilized to identify possible protease inhibitors against SARS-CoV-2 and Cobicistat, ritonavir, lopinavir, and darunavir are in the top screened molecules from FDA approved drugs.
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Isolation of a Novel Coronavirus from a Man with Pneumonia in Saudi Arabia

TL;DR: The clinical picture was remarkably similar to that of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 and reminds us that animal coronaviruses can cause severe disease in humans.
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Origin and evolution of pathogenic coronaviruses

TL;DR: The viral factors that enabled the emergence of diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome are explored and the diversity and potential of bat-borne coronaviruses are highlighted.
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