id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-297208-f4ob3ox6 Pisano, Antonio Cardiothoracic surgery at the time of COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from the East (and from a previous epidemic) for western battlefields 2020-05-06 .txt text/plain 1376 62 39 1 Evidently, countries which faced the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, the first coronavirus pandemic of the current century which affected more than 8000 people (mainly in China, Vietnam, Singapore and Canada) in 2003 7 , were much more prepared, both culturally and in terms of facilities and equipment, as compared with western countries (many of which had to face, in the initial stages of the emergency, the shortage of even simple and cheap devices such as surgical masks). ./cache/cord-297208-f4ob3ox6.txt ./txt/cord-297208-f4ob3ox6.txt