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    Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that was first identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The WHO declared COVID-19 a global health emergency on January 30, 2020 and a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. COVID-19 was named by the WHO to avoid stigmatizing the virus's origins and refers to the coronavirus disease that emerged in 2019.

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    1/26/23, 4:12 PM Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Practice Essentials, Background, Route of Transmission

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    Coronavirus Disease 2019


    (COVID-19)
    Updated: Nov 10, 2022
    Author: David J Cennimo, MD, FAAP, FACP, FIDSA, AAHIVS; Chief Editor: Michael Stuart Bronze,
    MD  more...

    OVERVIEW

    Practice Essentials
    Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is defined as illness caused by a novel coronavirus called
    severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; formerly called 2019-nCoV), which
    was first identified amid an outbreak of respiratory illness cases in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China.
    [1] It was initially reported to the WHO on December 31, 2019. On January 30, 2020, the WHO

    declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global health emergency. [2, 3] On March 11, 2020, the WHO
    declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, its first such designation since declaring H1N1 influenza a
    pandemic in 2009. [4]   

    Illness caused by SARS-CoV-2 was termed COVID-19 by the WHO, the acronym derived from
    "coronavirus disease 2019. " The name was chosen to avoid stigmatizing the virus's origins in terms of
    populations, geography, or animal associations

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