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ReviewJournal of multidisciplinary healthcare2023

Assessment of the Prevalence and Incidence of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia.

Hanan E Alyahyawi, Raed A Alharbi, Saleha Keder Alatawi, Waled A M Ahmed, Shaia S R Almalki

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Review in Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Hanan E AlyahyawiDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Albaha University, Al Bahah, Saudi Arabia.
Raed A AlharbiDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Albaha University, Al Bahah, Saudi Arabia.
Saleha Keder AlatawiDepartment of Optometry, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Albaha University, Al Bahah, Saudi Arabia.
Waled A M AhmedDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Albaha University, Al Bahah, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-8023-1583
Shaia S R AlmalkiDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Albaha University, Al Bahah, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-5899-9035

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) is reported to have started in Wuhan City, Hebei Province, China. It has spread rapidly all over the world, including Saudi Arabia, having a severe health emergency. This new virus was named as the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), and now severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) based on previous practice and phylogenetic and taxonomic investigations. SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the family of Coronaviridae, Betacoronavirus, Sarbecovirus subgenus, genome β. Throughout the COVID 19 pandemic, several strains of SARS-CoV-2 have been recognized around the world. The SARS-CoV-2 variants have caused significant morbidity and mortality worldwide and in Saudi Arabia as well. The rate at which COVID-19 spread across borders and affected countries has highlighted the significance of health care systems to nations and global operations. This review focuses on the origin, epidemiology, pathophysiology, transmission, and the impact of this disease, while highlighting the knowledge about SARS-CoV-2 variants.

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coronavirusCOVID-19incidenceprevalencereviewSARS-CoV-2

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PMID36718380
PMCPMC9883987

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