Review Article · pages 145–149
COVID 19: How does it Impact the Kidneys?
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Anish Kumar Gupta, Shaurya Kaul, Chandra Mohan Bhardwaj, Narinder Pal Singh. COVID 19: How does it Impact the Kidneys?. J Int Med Sci Acad. 2021;34(3):145–149.
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A novel Coronavirus 2019 infection now known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and spread rapidly all over the worl d, and was declared a global pandemic in March 2020 by the worl d health organization (WHO). This was a third novel virus belonging to the large family “coronavirus” similar to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and the Mid dl e East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS- CoV) . However, COVID-19 though has a low fatality rate, but it is associated with a high rate of infection than previous epidemics from SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV.