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- Title
The start of the Austrian response to the COVID-19 crisis: a personal account.
- Authors
Müller, Markus
- Abstract
The first reports about human-to-human transmission of a new severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus in Wuhan, China, which emerged in January 2020 met a relaxed sentiment among experts and the public in Austria who were reminiscent of similar reports on SARS1, H1N1 or H5N1. Among other issues it concluded that (a) SARS-CoV-2 test capacities, which had been established at the Institute of Virology at the Medical University of Vienna needed to be scaled up, (b) any new COVID-19 cases should first be contained at home and contact traced, (c) all community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) cases in Vienna hospitals should be screened for SARS-CoV-2. The first case of COVID-19 in Austria was reported on 25 February and on 27 February the CAP screening initiative reported a first COVID-19 case in a Vienna Hospital intensive care unit (ICU). 10.1038/s41591-020-0822-7 10 Wu Z, McGoogan JM. Characteristics of and important lessons from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in China: summary of a report of 72 314 cases from the Chinese center for disease control and prevention.
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; COVID-19; SARS disease; MEDICAL virology; H5N1 Influenza
- Publication
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 2020, Vol 132, Issue 13/14, p353
- ISSN
0043-5325
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00508-020-01693-y