| "Coronavirus disease 2019 COVID-19 : situation report, 47" | "[A pathological report of three COVID-19 cases by minimally invasive autopsies]" |
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| Duddu P 19 February 2020 | "Timely mental health care for the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak is urgently needed" |
Hui DS, I Azhar E, Madani TA, Ntoumi F, Kock R, Dar O, Ippolito G, Mchugh TD, Memish ZA, Drosten C, Zumla A, Petersen E.
| "Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 ACE2 as a SARS-CoV-2 receptor: molecular mechanisms and potential therapeutic target" | The main way the disease spreads is through respiratory droplets expelled by someone who is coughing |
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| Reuters Healthcare, 16 February 2020 | The Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Emergency Response Epidemiology Team 17 February 2020 |
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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