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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19): The epidemic and the challenges.

Chih-Cheng Lai, +4 more
- 17 Feb 2020 - 
- Vol. 55, Iss: 3, pp 105924-105924
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Among patients with pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 (novel coronavirus pneumonia or Wuhan pneumonia), fever was the most common symptom, followed by cough, and bilateral lung involvement with ground-glass opacity was themost common finding from computed tomography images of the chest.
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This article is published in International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.The article was published on 2020-02-17 and is currently open access. It has received 4318 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pneumonia & Outbreak.

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Estimated effectiveness of school closure and voluntary event cancellation as COVID-19 countermeasures in Japan

Junko Kurita, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2021 - 
TL;DR: A susceptible–infected–recovered model with three age classes was constructed and data of symptomatic patients in Japan for 14 January through 24 March was used, showing significant reduction of contact frequency by SC and VEC.
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Housing and mental health during outbreak of COVID-19

Paria Akbari, +3 more
- 01 Mar 2021 - 
TL;DR: Assessment of housing satisfaction, housing preference of residents, and their mental health in house quarantine of COVID-19 considering housing type, spaces, environmental factors, and function and activities showed that there are differences between the current situation of the house and the preferences of the people during the house quarantine period.
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Knowledge and precautionary behavioral practice toward covid-19 among health professionals working in public university hospitals in ethiopia: A web-based survey

Shimelis Girma, +2 more
- 24 Aug 2020 - 
TL;DR: A significant gap was found between the level of knowledge and practical implementation of the recommended precautionary measures, especially for wearing masks and gloves, among health professionals working in public university hospitals in Ethiopia.
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The use of nebulized pharmacotherapies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sanjay Sethi, +2 more
- 09 Nov 2020 - 
TL;DR: The role of nebulization in patients with SARS-CoV-2 and the treatment of noninfected patients with chronic respiratory diseases is reviewed and the following two important questions are addressed: (1) should nebulized therapy be used in hospital or home settings by patients infected with Sars-Cov-2; and (2) should it be continued in patients already using it for chronic respiratory disease management in hospital and home settings?
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COVID-19 and the aviation industry: The interrelationship between the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the frequency of flights on the EU market.

Anyu Liu, +2 more
- 01 Nov 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the contribution of aviation related travel restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 in Europe by using quasi-experiment approaches including the regression discontinuity design and a two-stage spatial Durbin model with an instrumental variable.
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Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China

Chaolin Huang, +28 more
- 24 Jan 2020 - 
TL;DR: The epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and radiological characteristics and treatment and clinical outcomes of patients with laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection in Wuhan, China, were reported.
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A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019.

Na Zhu, +18 more
- 24 Jan 2020 - 
TL;DR: Human airway epithelial cells were used to isolate a novel coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV, which formed a clade within the subgenus sarbecovirus, Orthocoronavirinae subfamily, which is the seventh member of the family of coronaviruses that infect humans.
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A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin

Peng Zhou, +28 more
- 03 Feb 2020 - 
TL;DR: Identification and characterization of a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which caused an epidemic of acute respiratory syndrome in humans in Wuhan, China, and it is shown that this virus belongs to the species of SARSr-CoV, indicates that the virus is related to a bat coronav virus.
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Clinical Characteristics of 138 Hospitalized Patients With 2019 Novel Coronavirus-Infected Pneumonia in Wuhan, China.

Dawei Wang, +13 more
- 17 Mar 2020 - 
TL;DR: The epidemiological and clinical characteristics of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)-infected pneumonia in Wuhan, China, and hospital-associated transmission as the presumed mechanism of infection for affected health professionals and hospitalized patients are described.
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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study

Nanshan Chen, +13 more
- 30 Jan 2020 - 
TL;DR: 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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