Growing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic have raised basic questions about the infection.
, the lining of the abdomen does this job with the help of a dialysis solution delivered through a catheter.
SARS — short for severe acute respiratory syndrome — originated in China’s Guangdong province in 2002 and spread to 29 countries. By the time it was contained in 2003, it had causedMERS — or Middle East respiratory syndrome — began in 2012 and sickened at least 2,494 people in 27 countries. At least 858 people died in that outbreak.First, it spreads more easily in public. In less than three months, it has reached more than 60 countries and territories.
in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. That results in a case-fatality rate of 2.3%, the study said.The actual fatality rate for the new coronavirus may be quite a bit lower than 2.3% because people who are infected but experience only mild illness — or no symptoms at all — are massively undercounted, experts said. The true death rate could be as low as 0.2%, said Dr. Otto Yang, an infectious disease expert at UCLA.
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