Face COVID 19 or learn from its onslaught?
Keywords:
Covid 19, systems of health, pandemic
Abstract
The SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus pandemic is marked by its lethality, its transmissibility and its health impact. Although its lethal capacity is not extremely high (around 3 percent), it is much higher than that of influenza (0.1 percent) and is more serious in the elderly, people with previous pathologies and in the classes. social, women and more fragile groups. We present here an update of the editorial published on March 6 of this year, regarding the new evidence found and the classic approaches of PHC
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2020-03-28
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Herrera D. Face COVID 19 or learn from its onslaught?. PFR [Internet]. 2020Mar.28 [cited 2025Apr.18];5(1). Available from: https://practicafamiliarrural.org/index.php/pfr/article/view/149
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