@article {646694,
	title = {SARS-CoV-2 Virus and COVID-19 Pandemic: Virus Identification, Classification, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Transmission and Epidemic Dynamics},
	journal = { (originally published as "2019-nCoV Virus Outbreak and Epidemic, with a derivative version also published in the Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 6th edition, Cengage | Gale, 2021) Scholars at Harvard (harvard.scholar.edu/kleelerner)},
	year = {2020},
	abstract = {
	Beginning in December 2019, a small cluster of cases of a pneumonia of unknown origin was reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Genetic sequencing of samples taken from the respiratory tract secretions of those exhibiting the suspicious pneumonia revealed the causative agent as a previously unknown coronavirus, subsequently named the 2019-nCoV virus. The virus is now officially named SARS-CoV-2 (also styled SARS-CoV2). The disease associated with the virus is now known as COVID-19 (also styled as Covid-19). The disease outbreak is also commonly known as the novel coronavirus outbreak or COVID-19 pandemic.  \&nbsp;(more)



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	author = {K.Lee Lerner and BrendaWilmoth Lerner}
}
