COVID-19 - Serbian Journal of the Medical Chamber
INTRODUCTION
The first cases of atypical pneumonia caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) were registered in December 2019, in Wuhan (China) [1]. The disease very quickly spread all over the world and, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus...
INTRODUCTION
COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but with multiple extrapulmonary manifestations that can significantly affect further patient treatment and prognosis, which makes it a multisystemic disease with an unpredictable course and potentially numerous...
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Primary health care (PHC), as the “cornerstone of a sustainable health system“ [1], is essential for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Primary health care was expected, not only to meet the ‘usual’ needs in health care, but also to respond to the crisis situation, as well as to...
INTRODUCTION
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the SARSCoV-2 virus, is primarily a respiratory disease, with possible systemic effects. First identified in Wuhan City, in December 2019, in the ensuing months the disease spread worldwide and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization...
INTRODUCTION
It has been almost two years since, in December 2019, in the city of Wuhan, in the Chinese province of Hubei, the seventh human corona virus - SARS-CoV-2, which causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, and which is dominantly a droplet and contact infection, was identified. On January...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many problems and challenges to the medical profession, including psychiatry. These include the emergence of de novo disorders in the population, the worsening of the condition in previously diagnosed patients, but also problems in the mental functioning...
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At the press briefing held on March 11, 2020, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) pointed out that the number of COVID-19 cases outside China had rapidly increased thirteen-fold, and that, due to the tripled number of affected countries,...
INTRODUCTION
It is fairly easy to answer the question as to what has been the main, and often only topic of discussion, in all the languages of the world, in the past year, with only one word - COVID-19. The pandemic caused by the new corona virus SARS-CoV-2 has changed people’s lives as well as...
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A large number of different epidemics and pandemics in the world have thus far been the cause of the loss of many thousands, even millions of lives. Despite everyday advances in medicine, we are still faced with new pathogens threatening human lives, the global economy and the healthcare...
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In December 2019, in the city of Wuhan, in China, a new coronavirus strain emerged. It was named SARSCoV-2, and it spread very quickly to almost all parts of the globe [1]. The emergence of this virus brought the world into the state of a new pandemic, caused by a virus of which little...
INTRODUCTION
At the end of 2019, a new virus called SARS-CoV-2 was identified as the cause of pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, China, and in March 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic and named the disease coronavirus disease 2019 [1]. According to WHO criteria from September...
INTRODUCTION
At present, all countries in the world are stricken by the pandemic caused by the new corona virus named SARS-CoV-2 [1]. The first cases of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus were registered at the end of 2019, in the Hubei province of the People’s Republic of China and were initially...
INTRODUCTION
Over the past eighteen months, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused dramatic societal, economic, and healthcare disruptions across the world. As of June 20th, 2021, in the United States alone, a total of 33,368,860 cases of COVID-19 have been reported, along with...
INTRODUCTION
In December 2019 in the city of Wuhan, in China, the first cases of infection caused by the new SARS-CoV-2 virus were registered, and later on, the disease caused by this virus was named COVID-19 [1]. Shortly after this, on March 11th, 2020, the WHO characterized COVID-19 as a global...
BACKGROUND
As the available knowledge grew on the novel coronavirus being the cause of mild, but also severe infections with the possible presence of asymptomatic carriers in the general population, so did the necessity for urgent action in order to prevent suffering, disabilities and economic loss...
MORTALITY OF HEALTH WORKERS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Today, there is enough evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic most severely affects countries with socially specific contexts [1,2], and in them, marginalized citizens, population groups with the least economic resources available, as well as...
INTRODUCTION
As the global pandemic of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) progresses, many medical specialties still have a key role in establishing diagnosis and treatment. In radiology, most of the literature is focused on computerized tomography (CT) findings of COVID-19 manifestations...
INTRODUCTION
The first studies related to clinical and radiological manifestations present in patients suffering from the infection caused by the new corona virus, which was subsequently officially named SARS-CoV-2, were published online on January 24, 2020, in the Lancet and New England Journal...
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The global pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has long been considered an unprecedented crisis. On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared an international state of emergency in public health, due to the increase in infections caused by the SARS-CoV-2...
INTRODUCTION
The SARS-Cov-2 disease appeared towards the end of December 2019, in Wuhan, China, when a series of pneumonia cases of unknown cause was registered. Several weeks later it was confirmed that a new coronavirus was the cause of the disease. In mid-March 2020, after the first cases had...
INTRODUCTION
Since the beginning of the pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, on December 12, 2019, until now, the COVID-19 disease has shown many different clinical manifestations. Respiratory symptoms and fever are common in most patients infected with SARS-CoV-2. However, other systems may be involved...
INTRODUCTION
The first case of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was registered in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in December 2019 [1]. It all started when several cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology appeared in that...
Dear Editors,
The national survey on psychiatric disorders at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia (acronym - Cov2Soul.RS; funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia - www.cov2soul.rs), which is carried out by researchers from the University of Belgrade and the University of Novi...
INTRODUCTION
In December 2019, the existence of a new type of disease, caused by SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was discovered in the city of Wuhan, the Republic of China [1]. At the beginning of the global pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, we were entering uncharted territory, as little was known...
INTRODUCTION
Over the past two years, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has led to the infection of millions of people all over the world, and, according to data from November 2021, it has also led to more than five million...
INTRODUCTION
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely engaged the entire community of health workers. The disease is being analyzed from the perspective of epidemiology, etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations of the disease, best diagnostic criteria, and treatment protocols. At the same time,...
