The 2019 & #8211;2020 novel coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) pandemic: A joint american college of academic international medicine-world academic council of emergency medicine multidisciplinary COVID-19 working group consensus paper

Stanislaw P Stawicki, Rebecca Jeanmonod, Andrew C Miller, Lorenzo Paladino, David F Gaieski, Anna Q Yaffee, Annelies De Wulf, Joydeep Grover, Thomas J Papadimos, Christina Bloem, Sagar C Galw.ar, Vivek Chauhan, Michael S Firstenberg, Salvatore Di Somma, Donald Jeanmonod, Sona M Garg, Veronica Tucci, Harry L Anderson, Lateef Fatimah, Tamara J Worlton, Siddharth P Dubhashi, Krystal S Glaze, Sagar Sinha, Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, Vikas Yellapu, Dhanashree Kelkar, Ayman El-Menyar, Vimal Krishnan, S Venkataramanaiah, Yan Leyfman, Hassan Ali Saoud Al Thani, Prabath W B Nanayakkara, Sudip Nanda, Eric Cioè-Peña, Indrani Sardesai, Shruti Chandra, Aruna Munasinghe, Vibha Dutta, Silvana Teixeira Dal Ponte, Ricardo Izurieta, Juan A Asensio, Manish GargJournal of Global Infectious Diseases 2020 12(2):47-93 What started as a cluster of patients with a mysterious respiratory illness in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, was later determined to be coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The pathogen severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel Betacoronavirus, was subsequently isolated as the causative agent. SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted by respiratory droplets and fomites and presents clinically with fever, fatigue, myalgias, conjunctivitis, anosmia, dysgeusia, sore throat, nasal congestion, cough, dyspnea, nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea. In most critical cases, symptoms can escalate into acute respiratory distress syndrome accompanied by a runaway inf...
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