COVID-19-Lessons Learned and Questions Remaining

Ferric C Fang; Constance A Benson; Carlos Del Rio; Kathryn M Edwards; Vance G Fowler; David N Fredricks; Ajit P Limaye; Barbara E Murray; Susanna Naggie; Peter G Pappas; Robin Patel; David L Paterson; David A Pegues; William A Petri; Robert T Schooley

doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa1654

COVID-19-Lessons Learned and Questions Remaining

Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Jun 15;72(12):2225-2240. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1654.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Microbiology, and Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
² Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, USA.
³ Departments of Medicine and Global Health, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
⁶ Department of Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
⁸ Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
⁹ Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine, University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, Herston, QLD, Australia.
¹¹ Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
¹² Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA.

Abstract

In this article, the editors of Clinical Infectious Diseases review some of the most important lessons they have learned about the epidemiology, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection and identify essential questions about COVID-19 that remain to be answered.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
SARS-CoV-2