Coronavirus pneumonia-19 generally refers to the English abbreviation of Chinese coronavirus disease 20 19 in novel coronavirus, or COVID-19 for short, and refers to pneumonia caused by novel coronavirus infection of 20 19.

Naming reason:

The name of COronavirus pneumonia-19 is interpreted as: co stands for corona, VI stands for virus, D stands for disease, 19 because the disease broke out 20 19.

And the International Committee for Virus Classification announced that novel coronavirus was named novel coronavirus (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2); It is believed that this virus is the sister virus of SARS coronavirus.

Extended data:

COVID-19's symptoms:

Novel coronavirus is characterized by fever, dry cough and fatigue, and a few patients are accompanied by symptoms of upper respiratory tract and digestive tract such as nasal congestion, runny nose and diarrhea. Severe cases often have dyspnea after one week, and severe cases quickly progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, metabolic acidosis that is difficult to correct, bleeding and coagulation dysfunction and multiple organ failure.

In addition, severe or critically ill patients may have moderate to low fever, or even no obvious fever. Mild patients only show low fever and mild fatigue. , and no pneumonia.

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