Libyan Journal of Medical Sciences

REVIEW ARTICLE
Year
: 2020  |  Volume : 4  |  Issue : 3  |  Page : 99--105

COVID-19: The latest news and views


Khalid Farooqui1, Samman Rose1, Abdelnasser Y AwadElzouki2 
1 Department of Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar
2 Department of Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation; Weill Cornell Medicine, Doha, Qatar

Correspondence Address:
Dr. Khalid Farooqui
Department of Medicine, Al Khor Hospital , Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha
Qatar

COVID 19 pandemic in 6-8 months has left many countries in a devastating state , it has caused mortality and disabilities with different mechanism in the body which have been continuously evolving since the origin of the SARS COV2 virus causing great social, psychological and financial burden on the countries around the world. As we all know it's a viral infection with been different theories suggesting different action of SARS COV2, which have been evolved in last few months and still its ongoing to understand the exact nature of its virulence with its involvement of different mechanism of actions in different population which not only makes difficult in clinical prediction , prognosis but also its utmost challenging in the management and treatment of COVID 19 infection. In our review article we mainly emphasize over the recent updates involved in different action of SARS COV2 infection on different organs of human body, its virulence variation in selected populations, clinical predictors. We also briefly discuss about the latest modality of management for SARS COV2 infection along with treatment regimens and updates on vaccination.


How to cite this article:
Farooqui K, Rose S, AwadElzouki AY. COVID-19: The latest news and views.Libyan J Med Sci 2020;4:99-105


How to cite this URL:
Farooqui K, Rose S, AwadElzouki AY. COVID-19: The latest news and views. Libyan J Med Sci [serial online] 2020 [cited 2023 Mar 29 ];4:99-105
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