According to the WHO, most people (80%) recover fromCOVID-19. However,COVID-19can develop into a severe illness, especially in older people or people who already have medical conditions. The WHO has officially classified the coronavirus outbreak as apandemic,which it defines as “a worldwide...
The meaning of COVID-19 is a mild to severe respiratory illness that is caused by a coronavirus (Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 of the genus Betacoronavirus), is transmitted chiefly by contact with infectious material (such as respirator
WHO has made all of the results of the excess mortality estimates publicly available in an interactive web application athttps://worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/covid19excess/. This tool allows transparent exploration of estimates from the country level up to the regional and global levels. All data...
Interim national case definition: coronavirus disease (COVID-19). https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/722481c4-c44d-4bb6-9ceb-002022d52f80 (Government of Canada, 2020). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) 2020 interim case definition. https:/...
B. A patient with any acute respiratory illness AND having been in contact with a confirmed or probable COVID-19 case (see definition of contact) in the last 14 days prior to symptom onset;ORC. A patient with severe acute respiratory illness (fever and at least one sign/symptom of ...
Incubation period as part of the case definition of severe respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(42):20296. PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 8. Nishiura H, Linton NM, Akhmetzhanov AR. Serial interval of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infections...
The definition and risks of cytokine release syndrome-like in 11 COVID-19-infected pneumonia critically ill patients: disease characteristics and retrospective analysis Medrxiv (2020) Google Scholar [72] G. Chen, D. Wu, W. Guo, Y. Cao, D. Huang, H. Wang, T. Wang, X. Zhang, H. Che...
On March 11, 2020, with more than 118,000 cases identified across 114 countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a pandemic1. As a global health emergency, the rapid spread of COVID-19 led to implementation of widespread restrictions (e.g.,...
“We originally set the study up to enable clinical researchers anywhere in the world to do high-quality genetic research in intensive care,” explains Baillie. “The reason for our approach is that, by definition, the people who end up on life-support machines are extremely susceptible to the...
Myth:The COVID-19 lambda variant is vaccine-resistant. Fact: The COVID-19 lambda variant does not change the fact that the vaccine is safe and effective. The lambda variant was designated as the "variant of interest" by WHO. According to the working definition presented on the WHO's offic...