英文摘要 |
On February 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially named the outbreak of unusual respiratory diseases in Wuhan, People's Republic of China (P.R.C.) as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is, in Taiwan, called Severe Special Infectious Pneumonia, abbreviated as Wuhan pneumonia or neocoronary pneumonia, belonging to the fifth category of mandatory communicable diseases. Although this infectious disease belongs to the same coronavirus as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), its characteristics are different. This review attempt to collect and summarize the epidemiology, pathology, syndromes and disease course of COVID-19, which is merged in spirit of syndrome differentiation and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. Hope to provide a good clinical thinking and reasoning ending up with therapeutic recommendations for the medical situation in Taiwan. |