Novel Coronavirus: What the Clinician Needs to Know Interview

What are the symptoms? What distinguishes coronavirus from other influenza-like illness? When coronavirus is suspected, what should you do?

Show notes and references

CME credit: https://www.acponline.org/cme-moc/cme/internal-medicine-podcasts/core-im

ACP Interactive Learning Module

Time Stamps

01:30 Novel parts of coronavirus

03:00 What symptoms do patients present with for the novel coronavirus?

04:22 What distinguishes coronavirus from other influenza-like illness?

05:31 When coronavirus is suspected, what should you do?

07:13 What does testing for coronavirus entail?

09:06 What kind of isolation is required?

10:13 Do patients need to be isolated in biocontainment units?

10:42 What is treatment for the novel coronavirus?

12:30 Potential for vaccines

15:23 What is R0?

17:12 Animal reservoirs with 2019-nCoV, SARS, and MERS

19:18 What should we tell patients for prevention?