Version 1
: Received: 14 April 2020 / Approved: 16 April 2020 / Online: 16 April 2020 (16:00:00 CEST)
Version 2
: Received: 10 June 2020 / Approved: 10 June 2020 / Online: 10 June 2020 (05:17:01 CEST)
How to cite:
Cheng, Z.J.; Qu, H.; Liu, Z.; Zeng, R.; Tian, L.; Duan, Z.; Zhang, Q.; Yang, L.; Hakonarson, H.; Cheng, G. COVID-19: Look to the Future, Learn from the Past. Preprints2020, 2020040284
Cheng, Z.J.; Qu, H.; Liu, Z.; Zeng, R.; Tian, L.; Duan, Z.; Zhang, Q.; Yang, L.; Hakonarson, H.; Cheng, G. COVID-19: Look to the Future, Learn from the Past. Preprints 2020, 2020040284
Cheng, Z.J.; Qu, H.; Liu, Z.; Zeng, R.; Tian, L.; Duan, Z.; Zhang, Q.; Yang, L.; Hakonarson, H.; Cheng, G. COVID-19: Look to the Future, Learn from the Past. Preprints2020, 2020040284
APA Style
Cheng, Z.J., Qu, H., Liu, Z., Zeng, R., Tian, L., Duan, Z., Zhang, Q., Yang, L., Hakonarson, H., & Cheng, G. (2020). <strong><em></em></strong>COVID-19: Look to the Future, Learn from the Past. Preprints. https://doi.org/
Chicago/Turabian Style
Cheng, Z.J., Hakon Hakonarson and Gang Cheng. 2020 "<strong><em></em></strong>COVID-19: Look to the Future, Learn from the Past" Preprints. https://doi.org/
Abstract
There is a current pandemic of a new type of coronavirus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The number of confirmed infected cases has been rapidly increasing. This paper analyzes the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 in comparison with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and influenza. COVID-19 is similar to the diseases caused by SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV virologically and etiologically, but closer to influenza in epidemiology and virulence. The comparison provides a new perspective for the future of the disease control, and offers some ideas in the prevention and control management strategy. The large number of infectious people from the origin, and the highly infectious and occult nature have been two major problems, making the virus difficult to eradicate. We thus need to contemplate the possibility of long-term co-existence with COVID-19.
Keywords
coronavirus; epidemiology; 2019-nCoV; COVID-19
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
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.
Commenter: Zhangkai Cheng
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author