The Ups and Downs of COVID-19 Epidemics for Orthopedic Community

摘要

We started 2020 while facing the largest pandemic of infectious diseases in the last one hundred years and also the most widespread recession in human life. The relatively small size COVID-19 virus has now placed more than half of the world in lockdown and is passing through countries borderless without discrimination. Although our health is primarily at risk due to the disease itself, we cannot ignore subsequent damages of the disease and especially its economic damages.