Emergence of a novel human coronavirus threatening human health.

Poon, Leo L M; Peiris, Malik · Nat Med · 2020

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Abstract

In late December 2019, a cluster of patients with ‘atypical pneumonia’ of unknown etiology was reported in Wuhan, China. A novel human coronavirus, now provisionally called ‘SARS-CoV-2’, was identified as the cause of this disease, now named ‘COVID-19’.

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