id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-264477-2onwu92a Brida, Margarita The globe on the spotlight: Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) 2020-07-01 .txt text/plain 1972 91 46 Our world, however, failed to learn necessary lessons from the SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV outbreaks and to invest on essential global research on ways of preventing the spread of infectious disease. The paper by Tan and Aboulhosn published in the current issue of the Journal, summarizes current knowledge regarding Covid-19 disease pandemic and its potential cardiovascular involvement, with a reference to adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) [8] . However, we are currently lacking ACHD specific data and a strict policy of social distancing employed in other parts of the world, seems to have had a positive response during the first phase of this pandemic in reducing the spread of disease and allowing for health care systems to prepare and somewhat cope with the unprecedented need. There are emerging publications regarding models of care of cardiovascular patients with infectious disease, which however are short of specific ACHD experience at present [14, 15] . ./cache/cord-264477-2onwu92a.txt ./txt/cord-264477-2onwu92a.txt