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ReviewJournal of infection and public health2020

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A literature review.

Harapan Harapan, Naoya Itoh, Amanda Yufika, Wira Winardi, Synat Keam, Haypheng Te, Dewi Megawati, Zinatul Hayati, Abram L Wagner, Mudatsir Mudatsir

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Review in Journal of infection and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 573 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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573citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

573 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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513 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Harapan HarapanMedical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia; Tropical Disease Centre, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia; Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Electronic address: harapan@unsyiah.ac.id.
Naoya ItohDivision of Infectious Diseases, AichiCancer Center Hospital, Chikusa-ku Nagoya, Japan. Electronic address: itohnaoya0925@ybb.ne.jp.
Amanda YufikaDepartment of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Electronic address: amandayufika@gmail.com.
Wira WinardiDepartment of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Electronic address: wira.winardi@unsyiah.ac.id.
Synat KeamSchool of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. Electronic address: synat.keam@research.uwa.edu.au.
Haypheng TeSiem Reap Provincial Health Department, Ministry of Health, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Electronic address: hayphengte@gmail.com.
Dewi MegawatiDepartment of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Warmadewa University, Denpasar, Indonesia; Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. Electronic address: amegawati@ucdavis.edu.
Zinatul HayatiMedical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia; Tropical Disease Centre, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia; Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia; Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Electronic address: hayatikarmil@unsyiah.ac.id.
Abram L WagnerDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, MI 48109, USA. Electronic address: awag@umich.edu.
Mudatsir MudatsirMedical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia; Tropical Disease Centre, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia; Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Electronic address: mudatsir@unsyiah.ac.id.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In early December 2019, an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), occurred in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. On January 30, 2020 the World Health Organization declared the outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. As of February 14, 2020, 49,053 laboratory-confirmed and 1,381 deaths have been reported globally. Perceived risk of acquiring disease has led many governments to institute a variety of control measures. We conducted a literature review of publicly available information to summarize knowledge about the pathogen and the current epidemic. In this literature review, the causative agent, pathogenesis and immune responses, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and management of the disease, control and preventions strategies are all reviewed.

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Coronavirus InfectionsDisease OutbreaksPandemicsPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusClinical Trials as TopicCOVID-19HumansSARS-CoV-22019-nCoVCOVID-19Novel coronavirusOutbreakSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32340833
PMCPMC7142680

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.