Open AccessClinical and Epidemiological Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in the Early Stage of Outbreak
Author(s) -
허중연
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the korean journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2289-0769
pISSN - 1738-9364
DOI - 10.3904/kjm.2020.95.2.67
Subject(s) - outbreak , coronavirus , epidemiology , pandemic , pneumonia , covid-19 , etiology , disease , medicine , virology , intensive care medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty)
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus, which is now designated as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first identified as the etiology of pneumonia of unknown cause in patients from Wuhan of central China. Since the first report of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease became pandemic causing the large-scale outbreak all over the world. In this review, we discuss the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 in the early stage of outbreak based on recent reports from China.