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Brief Report
New Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Complexities Resulting in a Tragedy.
This version is not peer-reviewed.
Submitted:
21 April 2020
Posted:
23 April 2020
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Abstract
A striking aspect of COVID-19 is the difference in the outcome of the infection between different countries, and different ethnic groups within one country. We surveyed the literature on SARS-CoV-2 complemented with comparative publications on SARS-CoV and other coronaviruses to capture the current understanding of virus – host interactions including virus subtypes, transmission, zoonotic aspects, and potential host determinants.
Keywords:
covid
; covid-19
; SARS-CoV-2
; zoonosis
; ethnic disparities
; health care disparities
; virus strains
; virus subtypes
; virus variants
Preprints on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2
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