《LANCET,2月20日,Crowdsourcing data to mitigate epidemics》

  • 来源专题:COVID-19科研动态监测
  • 编译者: zhangmin
  • 发布时间:2020-02-21
  • Crowdsourcing data to mitigate epidemics

    Gabriel M Leung

    Kathy Leung

    Open AccessPublished:February 20, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(20)30055-8

    Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread with unprecedented speed and scale since the first zoonotic event that introduced the causative virus—severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)—into humans, probably during November, 2019, according to phylogenetic analyses suggesting the most recent common ancestor of the sequenced genomes emerged between Oct 23, and Dec 16, 2019. The reported cumulative number of confirmed patients worldwide already exceeds 70?000 in almost 30 countries and territories as of Feb 19, 2020, although that the actual number of infections is likely to far outnumber this case count.

  • 原文来源:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(20)30055-8/fulltext
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