Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world in different ways. Not only are people’s lives and livelihoods affected, but the virus has also affected people’s lifestyles. In the research sector, there have been significant changes, and new research is coming very strongly in the related fields of virology and epidemiology. Similar trends were observed after the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) episodes of 2003 and 2012, respectively. Analyzing 20 years of published scientific papers, this article points out the highlights of coronavirus-related research. Significant progress is observed in the past research related to virology, epidemiology, infectious diseases among others. However, in research linked to public health, its governance, technology, and risk communication there seem to be gap areas. Although the World Health Organization (WHO) global research road map has identified social science-related research as a priority area, more focus needs to be given in the upcoming days for multi, cross and trans-disciplinary research related to public health and disaster risk reduction.
Highlights
The World Health Organization (WHO) global research road map has identified social science-related research as a priority area, more focus needs to be given in the upcoming days for multi, cross and trans-disciplinary research related to public health and disaster risk reduction
The coronavirus disease COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the 11th of March 2020, within less than three months after its first report in Wuhan, China in late December 2019 [1]
The analysis shows some gaps and issues, which needs to be linked to the global research road map of WHO [4]
Summary
The coronavirus disease COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the 11th of March 2020, within less than three months after its first report in Wuhan, China in late December 2019 [1]. The numbers (infected people, death, number of new cases, among others) are increasing on a daily basis. From China, the hotspots shifted first to Europe and to the USA. Tremendous pressure is mounting on countries’ health care systems and health care professionals are becoming direct victim of the virus in many cases, with reported deaths in several countries. Three major characteristics of COVID-19 are: (1) high rate of spread, (2) aged and low immunity people are more vulnerable to be infected, and (3) differential recovery rates in different countries [2]
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