Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (English Edition)
Vinícius CaldeiraQuintão, Cláudia MarquezSimões, Laís Helena Navarro eLima, Guilherme Antônio Moreira deBarros, Marcello FonsecaSalgado-Filho, Gabriel Magalhães NunesGuimarãesfRodrigo LealAlves, Ana Maria MenezesCaetano, André PratoSchmidt, Maria José Carvalho Carmona
Abstract
In December 2019, China reported clusters of pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, epidemiologically related to transmission from animals. On December, 31, 2019, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of China described a new coronavirus and announced the first stage of an outbreak. In addition to coronavirus SARS-CoV and coronavirus MERS-CoV, the world would be facing a new virus that was named SARS-CoV-2, which could lead to a severe acute respiratory syndrome and was named by the World Health Organization Covid-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019).
Keywords
Epidemiology