Role of Vascular Surgery and Angiology in the COVID-19 Pandemic

According to World Health Organization information, the number of people infected with the latest coronavirus, also known as Sars-CoV-2, has now exceeded nine million worldwide. This new epidemic that emerged in the city of Wuhan, China, has become epidemiologically distinct from the other two viruses of the Coronavirus family already known to us and that have caused regional outbreaks in humans, thus not yet demonstrating the ability for rapid global distribution, which are the coronavirus responsible for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars-CoV) and the coronavirus responsible for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers-CoV).

Author(s): Anamika Pant

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