id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-304388-pth2d40p Lai, Chih-Cheng Asymptomatic carrier state, acute respiratory disease, and pneumonia due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2): Facts and myths 2020-03-04 .txt text/plain 4374 284 53 Abstract Since the emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (formerly known as the 2019 novel coronavirus [2019-nCoV]) in Wuhan, China in December 2019, which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), more than 75,000 cases have been reported in 32 countries/regions, resulting in more than 2000 deaths worldwide. 11, 15 Similarly, the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Emergency Response Epidemiology Team in China reported that 66.7% (n Z 29,798) of 44,672 cases of COVID-19 of varying degrees of severity were between 20 and 60 years of age. First, the clinical manifestation of COVID-19 ranges from the asymptomatic carrier state to severe pneumonia; however, most early reports only showed the findings of SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, in which the ratio of male patients was much larger than that of female patients, there were no pediatric cases, and the mortality rate was high. ./cache/cord-304388-pth2d40p.txt ./txt/cord-304388-pth2d40p.txt