International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health | 2021
Management of cases of COVID-19 infection with acute respiratory failure: a narrative review
Abstract
A series of pneumonia cases of unexplained causes erupted in Wuhan, China, by the end of 2019. A few weeks later, deep sequencing analysis of lower respiratory tract samples a few weeks later, in January 2020, identified a novel virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), as the causative agent for the detected pneumonia cluster. On February 11, 2020, the world health organization (WHO) called the epidemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 the new Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). By March 11, 2020, the WHO announced the pandemic status when the number of countries affected was 114, with more than 118,000 cases and over 4000 deaths.