University of Science Arts and Technology, Montserrat, BWI and the Einstein Medical Institute, North, USA
Perspective
The Recent Origin, Evolution, and Containment of RNA Viruses: MERS, SARS, and
COVID-19 and their Impact on Global Healthcare: An Editorial Perspective
Author(s): Orien L. Tulp* and George P. Einstein
Historically, epidemics occur about three times a century and pandemics about once a century, and each time a different infectious organism has been discovered to be the culprit. In addition, those individuals who also have comorbidities often entertain the greatest risk of the most serious complications of the illness. In January 2020, a novel coronavirus, SARSCoV-2, was identified as the cause of an outbreak of viral pneumonia of unknown origin in Hubei Province, Wuhan, China, having infected over 200 people and causing several deaths in the early phase of the outbreak. The illness, later named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), subsequently spread globally in a seemingly exponential manner and was soon determined to be the origins of a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) within the first few months of its discovery and emergence. In the first three months after COVID-.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2471-268X.22.8.210
