Open AccessCOVID-19: Anatomy of a Pandemic
Author(s) -
Hassan S. Naji
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
european journal of medical and health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2593-8339
DOI - 10.24018/ejmed.2021.3.4.967
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , similarity (geometry) , virology , case fatality rate , genome , betacoronavirus , geography , biology , medicine , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , genetics , epidemiology , computer science , gene , artificial intelligence , outbreak , disease , image (mathematics)
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has more than 82% genome similarity with SARS-CoV and more than 89% similarity with two bat coronaviruses, bat-SL-CoVZXC21 and bat-SL-CoVZC45. The virus went and caused the most recent pandemic in human history with fatality totaling more than 3 million deaths, and cases rising up to 176 million worldwide according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In this paper, a retrospective analysis of the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 around the world are presented.