The virus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person | International Society for Infectious Diseases |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
"Liver injury during highly pathogenic human coronavirus infections" | |
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"Clinical features and sexual transmission potential of SARS-CoV-2 infected female patients: a descriptive study in Wuhan, China" |
The disease can spread from person to person through small droplets from the nose or mouth which are spread when a person with COVID-19 coughs or exhales | A key issue for epidemiologists is helping policy makers decide the main objectives of mitigation — eg, minimising morbidity and associated mortality, avoiding an epidemic peak that overwhelms health-care services, keeping the effects on the economy within manageable levels, and flattening the epidemic curve to wait for vaccine development and manufacture on scale and antiviral drug therapies |
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Journal of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection | M SJ 14 February 2020 |
"Chest CT Findings in Coronavirus Disease-19 COVID-19 : Relationship to Duration of Infection".
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