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Koh GC, Hoenig H. How Should the Rehabilitation Community Prepare for 2019-nCoV? Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation. 2020 Mar 16.
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Abstract: With the 2019-nCoV pandemic spreading quickly in USA and the world, it is urgent that the rehabilitation community quickly understands the epidemiology of the virus and what we can and must do to face this microbial adversary at the early stages of this likely long global pandemic. The 2019-nCoV is a novel virus so the majority of world''s population does not have prior immunity to it. It is more infectious and fatal than seasonal influenza, and definitive treatment and a vaccine are months away. Our arsenal against it are currently mainly social distancing and infection control measures.

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