Comprehensive Overview on Multiple Strategies Fighting COVID-19

Abstract

Lately, myriad of novel viruses have emerged causing epidemics such as SARS, MERS, and SARS-CoV-2, leading to high mortality rates worldwide. Thus, these viruses represented a challenging threat to mankind, especially considering the miniscule data available at our disposal regarding these novel viruses. The entire world established coordinative relations in research projects regarding drug and vaccine development on the external range, whereas on the internal range, all countries declared it an emergency case through imposing different restrictions related to their border control, large gatherings, school attendance, and most social activities. Pandemic combating plans prioritized all sectors including normal people, medical staff politicians, and scientists collectively shouldered the burden. Through planning and learning the previous lessons from SARS and MERS, healthcare systems could succeed in combating the viral spread and implications of these new pandemics. Different management strategies including social distance, social awareness and isolation represented successful ways to slow down the spread of the pandemic. Furthermore, pre-preparedness of some countries for emergencies is crucial to minimize the consequences of the crisis.

Autoren

Shaden AM Khalifa
Briksam S Mohamed
Mohamed H Elashal
Ming Du
Zhiming Guo
Chao Zhao
Syed Ghulam Musharraf
Mohammad H Boskabady
Haged HR El-Seedi
Thomas Efferth
Hesham R El-Seedi

DOI

10.3390/ijerph17165813

eISSN

1660-4601

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

16

Zeitschrift

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Sprache

en

Online publication date

2020

Paginierung

5813 - 5813

Status

Published online

Herausgeber

MDPI AG

Herausgeber URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165813

Datum der Datenerfassung

2020

Titel

Comprehensive Overview on Multiple Strategies Fighting COVID-19

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

17

Data source: Crossref

Abstract

Lately, myriad of novel viruses have emerged causing epidemics such as SARS, MERS, and SARS-CoV-2, leading to high mortality rates worldwide. Thus, these viruses represented a challenging threat to mankind, especially considering the miniscule data available at our disposal regarding these novel viruses. The entire world established coordinative relations in research projects regarding drug and vaccine development on the external range, whereas on the internal range, all countries declared it an emergency case through imposing different restrictions related to their border control, large gatherings, school attendance, and most social activities. Pandemic combating plans prioritized all sectors including normal people, medical staff politicians, and scientists collectively shouldered the burden. Through planning and learning the previous lessons from SARS and MERS, healthcare systems could succeed in combating the viral spread and implications of these new pandemics. Different management strategies including social distance, social awareness and isolation represented successful ways to slow down the spread of the pandemic. Furthermore, pre-preparedness of some countries for emergencies is crucial to minimize the consequences of the crisis.

Addresses

Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.

Autoren

Shaden AM Khalifa
Briksam S Mohamed
Mohamed H Elashal
Ming Du
Zhiming Guo
Chao Zhao
Syed Ghulam Musharraf
Mohammad H Boskabady
Haged HR El-Seedi
Thomas Efferth
Hesham R El-Seedi

DOI

10.3390/ijerph17165813

eISSN

1660-4601

Externe Identifier

PubMed Identifier: 32796733
PubMed Central ID: PMC7460286

Funding acknowledgements

Stockholms Universitet: 2015-05468 and 2016-05885
Stockholms Universitet: 2015‐05468 and 2016‐05885

Open access

true

ISSN

1661-7827

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

16

Zeitschrift

International journal of environmental research and public health

Schlüsselwörter

Humans
Pneumonia, Viral
Coronavirus Infections
Disaster Planning
Communicable Disease Control
Pandemics
Global Health
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2

Sprache

eng

Medium

Electronic

Online publication date

2020

Open access status

Open Access

Paginierung

E5813

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2020

Status

Published

Publisher licence

CC BY

Datum der Datenerfassung

2020

Titel

Comprehensive Overview on Multiple Strategies Fighting COVID-19.

Sub types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
review-article
Review
Journal Article

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

17

Files

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/16/5813/pdf?version=1597633799 https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7460286?pdf=render

Data source: Europe PubMed Central

Abstract

Lately, myriad of novel viruses have emerged causing epidemics such as SARS, MERS, and SARS-CoV-2, leading to high mortality rates worldwide. Thus, these viruses represented a challenging threat to mankind, especially considering the miniscule data available at our disposal regarding these novel viruses. The entire world established coordinative relations in research projects regarding drug and vaccine development on the external range, whereas on the internal range, all countries declared it an emergency case through imposing different restrictions related to their border control, large gatherings, school attendance, and most social activities. Pandemic combating plans prioritized all sectors including normal people, medical staff politicians, and scientists collectively shouldered the burden. Through planning and learning the previous lessons from SARS and MERS, healthcare systems could succeed in combating the viral spread and implications of these new pandemics. Different management strategies including social distance, social awareness and isolation represented successful ways to slow down the spread of the pandemic. Furthermore, pre-preparedness of some countries for emergencies is crucial to minimize the consequences of the crisis.

Date of acceptance

2020

Autoren

Shaden AM Khalifa
Briksam S Mohamed
Mohamed H Elashal
Ming Du
Zhiming Guo
Chao Zhao
Syed Ghulam Musharraf
Mohammad H Boskabady
Haged HR El-Seedi
Thomas Efferth
Hesham R El-Seedi

Autoren-URL

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32796733

DOI

10.3390/ijerph17165813

eISSN

1660-4601

Externe Identifier

PubMed Central ID: PMC7460286

Funding acknowledgements

Stockholms Universitet: 2015-05468 and 2016-05885

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

16

Zeitschrift

Int J Environ Res Public Health

Schlüsselwörter

economic recession
global health responses
health care systems
strategies
symptoms
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Communicable Disease Control
Coronavirus Infections
Disaster Planning
Global Health
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral
SARS-CoV-2

Sprache

eng

Country

Switzerland

PII

ijerph17165813

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2020

Status

Published online

Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde

2020

Titel

Comprehensive Overview on Multiple Strategies Fighting COVID-19.

Sub types

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

17

Data source: PubMed

Comprehensive Overview on Multiple Strategies Fighting COVID-19

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