In December 2019, new cases of severe pneumonia were first detected in Wuhan, China, and the cause was determined to be a novel beta coronavirus related to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus that emerged from a bat reservoir in 2002. Within six months, this new virus--SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)--has spread worldwide, infecting at least 10 million people with an estimated 500,000 deaths. COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, was declared a public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO) and a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, there is no approved effective treatment or vaccine for COVID-19, and it continues to spread in many. countries.
| ISBN: | 9780309680912 |
| Publication date: | 29th September 2020 |
| Author: | Engineering, and Medicine US National Academies of Sciences, Institute of Medicine US, Engineering, and Medicine US National Academies of Sciences |
| Publisher: | The National Academies Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Series: | Consensus Study Report |
| Genres: |
Infectious and contagious diseases |