Pandemic-Related Submissions: The Challenge of Discerning Signal Amidst Noise.

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Lewis J. Kaplan, Emory University; Thomas P. Bleck; Timothy G. Buchman; R. Phillip Dellinger; Clifford S. Deutschman; John C. Marshall; David M. Maslove; Henry Masur; Margaret M. Parker; Donald S. Prough; Aarti Sarwal; Jonathan Sevransky; Jean-Louis Vincent; Jerry J. Zimmerman
• Language: English
• Date: 2020-08
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2020 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000004477
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Crit Care Med
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 8
• Start Page: 1099
• End Page: 1102
• Keywords: death; novel coronavirus; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; global efforts; confirmed cases; pathogen; pandemic
• Research Categories: Biology, Virology; Health Sciences, Immunology; Health Sciences, Epidemiology

Abstract

The emergence of a novel coronavirus in the final quarter of 2019 precipitated a public health emergency on a global scale. The SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic, and the spectrum of clinical illnesses labelled COVID-19, has led to more than 6.6. million confirmed cases and more than 390,000 deaths worldwide as of June 5, 2020. More than 1.8 million cases and more than 108,000 attributable deaths have occurred in the United States of America, where this journal is published.