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Published in: Critical Care 1/2020

01-12-2020 | Coronavirus | Editorial

Coronavirus: just imagine…

Authors: Jean-Louis Vincent, Arthur S. Slutsky

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 1/2020

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Just imagine this possible scenario: it is summer 2020 and our intensive care unit (ICU) is full of patients with COVID-19 and severe respiratory failure as a result of the newly described coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 [1‐3]. We have decreased virtually all the other activities in the hospital, so that there are not many critically ill patients with other problems. We have cancelled all non-urgent (and in fact some urgent) surgical cases, including cardiac surgery and neurosurgery cases that usually come through our Department. …
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Lu R, Zhao X, Li J, Niu P, Yang B, Wu H, Wang W et al. Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding. Lancet. 2020;395:565–74.
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Wu JT, Leung K, Leung GM. Nowcasting and forecasting the potential domestic and international spread of the 2019-nCoV outbreak originating in Wuhan, China: a modelling study. Lancet. 2020;395:689–97.
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Title
Coronavirus: just imagine…
Authors
Jean-Louis Vincent
Arthur S. Slutsky
Publication date
01-12-2020
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 1/2020
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-020-2824-8

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