What to do next to control the 2019-nCoV epidemic?

The Lancet

Volumn 395, Issue 10222, 2020, Pages 391-393

  Wang, Fu Sheng ^a   Zhang, Chao ^a  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; LOPINAVIR PLUS RITONAVIR; REMDESIVIR;

ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BETACORONAVIRUS; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FATALITY; FEVER; HEADACHE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LUNG LAVAGE; MORTALITY RATE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINORRHEA; SARS-RELATED CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SORE THROAT; THORAX PAIN; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CORONAVIRINAE; PNEUMONIA;

CHINA; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 85078850258     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30300-7     Document Type: Note

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