Open AccessCOVID-19 and stroke: perspectives and concerns
Author(s) -
Marco Aurélio M. Freire,
Usaamah M. Khan,
Daniel Falcão
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista ciências em saúde
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2236-3785
DOI - 10.21876/rcshci.v10i4.1077
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , outbreak , public health , china , coronavirus , health care , economic growth , medicine , disease , geography , environmental health , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , nursing , economics , archaeology , pathology
In December 2019, the first reports of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), with a subsequent outbreak rapidly spreading globally. Since then, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted society worldwide, and the SAR-CoV-2 virus continues to spread, by infecting more than 55 million people and causing over one million and three-hundred thousand deaths to date. On January 30th, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International concern, having a vast impact on people's behavior, personal relationships, jobs, and the global economy, besides causing a severe burden to the healthcare system.