COVID-19. A pandemic of the 21st century. Impact in El Salvador

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Disease of world concern, COVID-19, El Salavdor

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Since its origins, in November 2019 in Wuhan China, Covid-19 went from being a local respiratory disease to a disease of global concern declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in January 2020. Other pandemics of respiratory type such as the Spanish flu in 1914-1919; the Asian flu, in 1957; and the 1968 Hong Kong flu share the common feature of their rapid spread among the population, an aspect that the "new coronavirus" has overcome, spreading faster and more strongly, thus posing a greater threat.

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Rina Alejandra Rodezno Hernández, Universidad Evangélica de El Salvador

Doctora y docente titular de Fisiología y Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Evangélica de El Salvador

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2020-12-01

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COVID-19. A pandemic of the 21st century. Impact in El Salvador. (2020). Crea Ciencia, 13(1), 48-53. https://doi.org/10.5377/creaciencia.v13i1.10467

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COVID-19. A pandemic of the 21st century. Impact in El Salvador. (2020). Crea Ciencia, 13(1), 48-53. https://doi.org/10.5377/creaciencia.v13i1.10467