Comparison Of Demographic And Clinical Characteristics Between First And Second Covid19 Waves: A Retrospective Study From A Tertiary Care Center In India.
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In the beginning, the COVID-19 pandemic overburdened public health systems throughout the world, mostly due to a lack of knowledge about the virus's behavior and methods of treatment. [1-3] SARS-CoV-2, a new coronavirus in the Coronaviridae family, is the virus that is causative agent of this infection. [3] Wuhan's seafood markets were originally thought to be the source of the outbreak's zoonotic propagation in China. But the discovery of human-to-human transmission later on encouraged a widespread community spread, which quickly turned into a worldwide pandemic.
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