The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)is the causative pathogen of a new infectious disease, coronavirusdisease 2019 (COVID-19), that first occurred in late December 2019in the city of Wuhan in Hubei Province, China. It has since spreadglobally, resulting in a World Health Organization (WHO) declaredpandemic, with as yet (April 28, 2020) 3 million confirmed casesand 200 000 confirmed deaths. As for every new disease, clinicians,hospitals, and governments struggle to find optimal clinicaland public health measures to contain its spread and burden. Forthis, information from scientific research is crucial, and fortunatelywe see a rapidly accumulating output of studies. However, keepingup with the increasing output and its content and quality is a challengefor everyone involved in this outbreak, especially those at thefront lines of patient care. Scientific journals and societies can playan important role in summarizing and channeling the data, and reviewarticles are a great help.
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