The Coronavirus. An infection prevention and control case study E-Book

John Die

• Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Case Study from the year 2020 in the subject Medicine - Epidemiology, grade: Pass, James Cook University, language: English, abstract: This work describes possible control measures and actions to control and prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. A novel virus broke out in a city in southern China last year and developed to a major public health threat within a few months. The pandemic began with an outbreak of pneumonia with unknown origin because of an infection of the lower respiratory tract. Soon, the novel pathogen was identified as a novel coronavirus, described as novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) by the Chinese government.