COVID-19 history, from China to the world

ISBN-13: 9786204209067 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str.

Umberto Cornelli; Giovanni Belcaro; Martino Recchia

Opis

As clinicians and researchers, we followed the COVID-19 pandemic right from its start in 2020. During the first month, immediately after its appearance in China, we all considered the disease as we would seasonal influenza. We thought "they are making a mountain out of a molehill". We could not have been more wrong: the disease was not a molehill but a soaring peak.As soon as we realized the severity of the viral infection in March 2020, we immediately started looking for ways to treat it and possible preventive measures since we were aware that it would take longer to come up with a specific vaccine than it normally takes to design one for seasonal flu.More specifically, the information reaching us from China was very limited and sometimes contradictory. Likewise, the indications provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) were very incomplete, and it was soon evident that the pandemic was becoming more of a political issue than a medical problem.

O autorze

Cornelli, UmbertoProf Cornelli is an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University School of Medicine since 1995. He is a clinical pharmacologist and studied many drugs. He wrote 200 papers for International Journals, five books, and holds 15 international patents. In 2002 he received the honorary degree in Science from the Loyola University School of Medicine-Chicago.