Commentary on the Role of Angiology and Vascular Surgery in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Currently, according to data from the World Health Organization, the number of people around the world infected with the new coronavirus, also known as Sars-CoV-2, has already passed the nine million infected mark. This new epidemic that emerged in the city of Wuhan, China, has become epidemiologically distinct from the other two viruses of the Coronavirus family already known to us and that have caused regional outbreaks in humans, thus not yet demonstrating the ability for rapid global distribution, which are the coronavirus responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars-CoV) and the coronavirus responsible for Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers-CoV).