Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, and has since spread globally, resulting in the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic [1].

Keywords: COVID-19; Chest Infection; ARDS; Public Health; Atypical Pneumonia; Viral Infection; Pandemic

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Citation

Citation: Esmael Ali Hamed. “COVID-19 Pandemic: Egyptian Health Care Providers Burn Out".Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 5.2 (2021): 75-79.

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Copyright: © 2021 Esmael Ali Hamed. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.