Ninety Days in: A Comprehensive Review of the Ongoing COVID-19 Outbreak

ABSTRACT

According to folk beliefs, the meats of the wild game have natural healing powers and are thus often used in "dietary therapy" and traditional Chinese medicine. The most common diagnosis tool has been quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR (qRT-PCR) but medical professionals have been pushing to establish diagnostic criteria based on high definition chest CT, in order to circumvent the limited capacity of the PCR kits [69]. [...]Japan, one of the most severely affected countries other than China, is also the host nation for the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics [21]. [...]Japan is under great pressure to keep the epidemic in check ahead of the world's greatest support event, where heavy international traffic may exacerbate the spread of the virus [51]. [...]there is a speculation that SARSCoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 have similar transmissions, since they are both coronaviruses.