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COVID-19: Anatomy of a Pandemic

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  • Hassan Naji

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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.

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  • Hassan Naji, 2021. "COVID-19: Anatomy of a Pandemic," European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, European Open Science, vol. 3(4), pages 84-89, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:epw:ejmed0:v:3:y:2021:i:4:id:40967
    DOI: 10.24018/ejmed.2021.3.4.967
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