Clinics · 2020 · 13 citations · 5 references
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When the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, there were approximately 147,000 confirmed cases worldwide. Just one month later, the COVID-19 disease had spread dramatically; the number of cases had increased ten-fold (), with 15% of infected patients requiring hospitalization and 5% in intensive care units (). This meteoric rise in cases resulted in an overloaded demand for medical resources, often exceeding the available [...]
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Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
Chaolin Huang, Yeming Wang, Xingwang Li et al. · The Lancet · 2020 · 51.8K citations · Full text