id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-325377-g68onkjt Dey, Anusree COVID-19: Scientific Overview of the global Pandemic 2020-10-28 .txt text/plain 1515 108 60 COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) is the disease caused by the novel Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. This review gives a broad insight into different aspects of the COVID-19 disease, introduction to SARS-CoV-2, mitigation strategies, present status of diagnostics and therapeutics. According to the global data as well as the early estimates from China, both old 69 J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f age and comorbidities may render the patients at higher risk of developing severe disease or 70 death due to COVID-19 infection, perhaps due to a weaker immune functioning [8, 10] . Interestingly, in an independent study, researchers have found 124 three blood based biomarkers which can predict disease severity at least ten days in advance 125 with more than 90% accuracy, based on a database of 485 infected patients from Wuhan, 126 ./cache/cord-325377-g68onkjt.txt ./txt/cord-325377-g68onkjt.txt