Since hospital capacities are limited — in particular, given the concurrent peak of the influenza season in the northern hemisphere — research is needed to determine whether such patients can be treated with appropriate guidance and oversight outside the hospital.
— Read on www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001468
Western hospital capacities are even limited during influenza season!
Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China – The Lancet
— Read on www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30183-5/fulltext
“Given the emergence of the 2019-nCoV pneumonia cases during the influenza season, antibiotics (orally and intravenously) and oseltamivir (orally 75 mg twice daily) were empirically administered.”
Posting because China may have thought it was just complications from the flu, originally.
We also noticed that the only Asian donor (male) has a much higher ACE2-expressing cell ratio than white and African American donors (2.50% vs. 0.47% of all cells). This might explain the observation that the new Coronavirus pandemic and previous SARS-Cov pandemic are concentrated in the Asian area.
— Read on www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1.full
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