Abstract
COVID-19 has taken a massive toll on the planet, claiming over 3 million lives and infecting nearly 150 million people. (1) This highly contagious multisystem disease is caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2 strain. Originating in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, the infection rapidly pervaded the globe, being declared a public health emergency by the WHO on January 30, 2020, and a pandemic on March 11, 2020. (2) Despite closely resembling the SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV, the causative agents of two global pandemics in 2003, the SARS-CoV-2 varies widely in the presentation instead of the predicted trajectory. (3) Significant progress has been made in understanding the virus, the infection, and developing treatment protocols. Nevertheless, the long-term effects of COVID remain unknown.
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