Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): An Emerging Infectious Disease in the 21st Century

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Summary

The outbreak caused by the novel coronavirus is larger than the previous human coronaviruses, showing that the SARS-CoV-2 is an extremely contagious virus, and the mortality rate of COVID-19 is lower than that of other coronaviral diseases such as SARS or MERS and other viruses like HIV and Ebola.

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Published
2020-01-01
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Keywords

Case fatality rate, Coronavirus, Outbreak, Medicine, Pandemic

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