COVID-19 Infection: What Every Health Care Professional Should Know About It

Marcelo Caliman Sato¹, Gabriel de Toledo Telles Araujo², Levy Anderson César Alves³, Frederico Buhatem Medeiros⁴, Lilia Timerman⁵, Raquel Garcia D'Aquino Caminha⁶ & Paulo Sérgio da Silva Santos^2*

¹Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
²Department of Surgery, Stomatology, Pathology, and Radiology, Bauru Dental School, University of São Paulo, Bauru, Brazil
³Municipal University of São Caetano do Sul, Brazil
⁴Samaritano Hospital, Brazil
⁵Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology, Brazil
⁶Department of Surgery, Stomatology, Pathology and Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry of Bauru, University of Sao Paulo, Bauru, SP, Brazil

Dr. Paulo Sérgio da Silva Santos, Department of Surgery, Stomatology, Pathology, and Radiology, Bauru Dental School, University of São Paulo, Bauru, Brazil.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Infections

Abstract

SARS-Cov-2 virus has high infectivity and spreads very quickly throughout the world. The way viruses connect to the host needs to be well understood to establish health care safety preventive measures. Investments in research and adoption of criterious biosafety standards are necessary for the control of infections caused by viruses. In the absence of medicines and vaccines, all health care providers have readapted local measures protocols to their protection, and to reduce potential virus transmission. These protocols are being readjusted as new studies are being launched, for this paper aims to review COVID-19 publications that have been shed to light throughout this pandemic that have strong scientific evidence about SARS-CoV-2, to help professionals to carefully read, and to be updated in order to establish health care guidelines safely.

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