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What are the symptoms? What distinguishes coronavirus from other influenza-like illness? When coronavirus is suspected, what should you do?

Show notes and references

CME credit: https://www.acponline.org/cme-moc/cme/internal-medicine-podcasts/core-im

Time Stamps

• 01:30 Novel parts of coronavirus

• 03:00 What symptoms do patients present with for the novel coronavirus?

• 04:22 What distinguishes coronavirus from other influenza-like illness?

• 05:31 When coronavirus is suspected, what should you do?

• 07:13 What does testing for coronavirus entail?

• 09:06 What kind of isolation is required?

• 10:13 Do patients need to be isolated in biocontainment units?

• 10:42 What is treatment for the novel coronavirus?

• 12:30 Potential for vaccines

• 15:23 What is R0?

• 17:12 Animal reservoirs with 2019-nCoV, SARS, and MERS

• 19:18 What should we tell patients for prevention?