(Ebook) COVID Reference ENG 2020.4 (18 June 2020) by Bernd Sebastian Kamps, Christian Hoffmann ISBN 9783942687461, 3942687461

(Ebook) COVID Reference ENG 2020.4 (18 June 2020) by Bernd Sebastian Kamps, Christian Hoffmann ISBN 9783942687461, 3942687461

Six weeks after the third edition, the world has changed again.The pandemic is raging in South America, particularly in Brazil,Ecuador and Peru. SARS-CoV-2 is under control in China, but inIran it is not. And in Europe, where most countries have weatheredthe first wave and open borders to save a compromisedtourist season, is now wondering if and for how long this biologicaldrôle de guerre could last.Science has moved ahead, too. We have seen a more complexpicture of COVID-19 and new clinical syndromes; the first datafrom vaccine trials; first results from randomized controlleddrug studies; encouraging publications on monoclonal neutralizingantibodies and serological evidence about the number ofpeople who have come into contact with SARS-CoV-2. Unfortunately,we have also seen the first science scandal with fake datapublished in highly ranked journals. And we face new challengeslike long-term effects of COVID-19 and a Kawasaki-like inflammatorymultisystem syndrome in children.For quite some time, prevention will continue to be the primarypillar of pandemic control. In future waves of the SARS-CoV-2pandemic, we will focus on the conditions under which SARSCoV-2 is best transmitted: crowded, closed (and noisy) places andspaces. Although hospitals are not noisy, they are crowded andclosed, and the battle against the new coronavirus will be decidedat the very center of our healthcare system. Over the nextmonths and maybe years, one of all of our top priorities will beto give all healthcare workers and patients perfect personal protectiveequipment.Bernd Sebastian Kamps & Christian Hoffmann7 June 2020