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TWiV 584: Year of the coronavirus

This Week in Virology

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The Expanding Cronovirus Epidemic in Saudi Arabia

In the case of sars, almost anyone infected with the virus had serious disease and so and they also didn't really transmit until about 24 to 36 hours after clinical, severe clinical symptoms began to develop. So contact tracing and quarantine worked well to control the expanding epidemic in mers cronovirus. But now we moved to two thousand 19. The initial reports are argued that not all individuals infected with the two thousand 19 viris develop severe disease. In fact, only about 30 % develop what is considered severe, life threatening disease. That means that the remaining seven percent have a spectrum of disease penotypes that can range perhaps from mild or even moderate. And this results in community based outbreaks

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