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How Should the Rehabilitation Community Prepare for 2019-nCoV?

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Abstract

With the novel coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCoV) pandemic spreading quickly in the United States 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 most of the 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 is currently mainly social distancing and infection control measures.

Keywords

2019-nCoV
COVID-19
Distancing
Epidemiology
Infection control
Rehabilitation

List of abbreviations

2019-nCoV/COVID-19
novel coronavirus 2019
CFR
case fatality rate
HCW
health care worker
PPE
personal protective equipment
WHO
World Health Organization

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Disclosures: Gerald Choon-Huat Koh is a founder and current board member of T-Rehab Pte Ltd, a telerehabilitation National University of Singapore startup company registered in Singapore. The other author has nothing to disclose.

Gerald Choon-Huat Koh is supported by the Singapore Ministry of Health’s National Medical Research Council under the Centre Grant Programme - Singapore Population Health Improvement Centre (NMRC/CG/C026/2017_NUHS).

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