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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana
versión impresa ISSN 1814-5469versión On-line ISSN 2308-0531
Resumen
CORDOVA-AGUILAR, Alberto y ROSSANI A., Germán. COVID-19: Literature review and its impact on the peruvian health reality. Rev. Fac. Med. Hum. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.3, pp.471-477. ISSN 1814-5469. http://dx.doi.org/10.25176/rfmh.v20i3.2984.
Introduction:
The disease called COVID-19 is a pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (severe acute respiratory syndrome 2). In Peru, patient zero or first case with COVID-19 was detected on March 6 and since then the virus has continued to spread. The national government fights against this disease on several fronts, but the health situation differs greatly from developed countries.
Objective:
To review the current state of the disease and analyze its possible impact on the Peruvian health system.
Methods:
A bibliographic search of various studies was carried out since the appearance of the disease (December 2019) in different databases (PUBMED, MEDLINE, PLOs, SciELO) and Google Scholar.
Results:
The virus is transmitted mainly by the respiratory route; the average incubation period is 14 days; most patients have mild disease or are asymptomatic but 5% of these will require hospitalization, some will even require intensive therapy with mechanical ventilation; the current treatment is basically symptomatic, though antibiotics, antivirals and antiparasitics have also been used.
Conclusions:
The quarantine with strict measures of isolation and social distancing is accurate given the Peruvian health reality and the imminent contagion of the population.
Palabras clave : SARS-CoV-2;; COVID-19; Pandemics; Coronavirus Infections; Health Systems. (Source: MEDLINE MeSH)..