Coronavirus disease 2019: A disease of equal opportunity, nature and nurture

Abstract

Coronaviruses are responsible for over 50% of all cases of flu in human and animals for the past half-decade. Most of the diseases were largely seasonal, mild, and self-limiting save for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and currently coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) diagnosed in 2003, 2012, and 2019, respectively. COVID-19 pandemic poses a threat to the entire globe with conflicting and controversial information, challenges in the pathogenesis, control, and management. A common denominator is that it has proven to be an equal opportunity disease and that of nature and nurture with hard psycho-socio- economic lessons for the entire globe.