COVID-19, chronicle of an expected pandemic

EMBO Mol Med. 2020 May 8;12(5):e12463. doi: 10.15252/emmm.202012463. Epub 2020 May 4.

Abstract

What is COVID-19? What are the causes, parameters, and effects of this disease? What are the short- and long-term prospects? Philippe Sansonetti, Infectious disease specialist and Chief Editor of EMBO Molecular Medicine, explains why the fate of the epidemic is in our hands.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Betacoronavirus*
  • COVID-19
  • Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
  • Coronavirus Infections / transmission*
  • Humans
  • Pandemics
  • Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / transmission*
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Zoonoses