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Review
. 2020;2(6):694-699.
doi: 10.1007/s42399-020-00333-w. Epub 2020 May 29.

Clinical Management of Adult Coronavirus Infection Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Positive in the Setting of Low and Medium Intensity of Care: a Short Practical Review

Alfredo Pennica  1 , Giulia Conforti  2 , Francesca Falangone  2 , Antonio Martocchia  2 , Laura Tafaro  2 , Alberto Sentimentale  2 , Valentina Marini  2 , Aldo Pezzuto  2 , Valerio Spuntarelli  2 , Paolo Martelletti  2
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Clinical Management of Adult Coronavirus Infection Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Positive in the Setting of Low and Medium Intensity of Care: a Short Practical Review

Alfredo Pennica et al. SN Compr Clin Med. 2020.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) is a viral infection which is rapidly spreading on a global scale and causing a severe acute respiratory syndrome that affects today about four and a half million registered cases of people around the world. The aim of this narrative review is to provide an urgent guidance for the doctors who take care of these patients. Recommendations contained in this protocol are based on limited, non-definitive, evidence and experience-based opinions about patients with low and medium intensity of care. A short guidance on the management of COVID-19 is provided for an extensive use in different hospital settings. The evidence-based knowledge of COVID-19 is rapidly evolving, and we hope that, in the near future, a definitive and most efficacious treatment will be available including a specific vaccine for SARS-CoV-2.

Keywords: COVID-19; Low-medium intensity of care; Management; Therapy.

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Conflict of InterestThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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