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2019 Novel Coronavirus: Where We are and What We Know
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: Received: 31 January 2020 / Approved: 31 January 2020 / Online: 31 January 2020 (05:36:32 CET)
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Cheng, Z.J., Shan, J. 2019 Novel coronavirus: where we are and what we know. Infection (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-020-01401-y Cheng, Z.J., Shan, J. 2019 Novel coronavirus: where we are and what we know. Infection (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-020-01401-y
Abstract
There is a current worldwide outbreak of a new type of coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which originated from China and has now spread to 17 other countries. Governments are under increase pressure to stop the outbreak spiraling into a global health emergency. At this stage, preparedness, transparency and sharing of information are crucial to risk assessments and beginning outbreak control activities. This information should include reports from outbreak sites, and from laboratories supporting the investigation. This paper aggregates and consolidates the virology, epidemiology, clinical management strategies from both English and Chinese literature, official news channels and other official government documents. In addition, by fitting the number of infections with a single-term exponential model, we report that the infection is spreading at an exponential rate, with a doubling period of 1.8 days.
Keywords
2019-nCoV; nCoV; China; Wuhan; coronavirus; virology; epidemiology; clinical guidance; literature survey; review
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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