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Review
. 2020 Jun;92(6):548-551.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.25722. Epub 2020 Mar 5.

Understanding of COVID-19 based on current evidence

Pengfei Sun  1 , Xiaosheng Lu  2 , Chao Xu  1 , Wenjuan Sun  3 , Bo Pan  4
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Review

Understanding of COVID-19 based on current evidence

Pengfei Sun et al. J Med Virol. 2020 Jun.

Abstract

Since December 2019, a series of unexplained pneumonia cases have been reported in Wuhan, China. On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) temporarily named this new virus as the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). On 11 February 2020, the WHO officially named the disease caused by the 2019-nCoV as coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The COVID-19 epidemic is spreading all over the world, especially in China. Based on the published evidence, we systematically discuss the characteristics of COVID-19 in the hope of providing a reference for future studies and help for the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Keywords: 2019-nCoV; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus; epidemiology; pneumonia.

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The authors declare that there are no conflict of interests.

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