id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-268206-ino9srb6 Hamed, Manal A. An overview on COVID-19: reality and expectation 2020-06-01 .txt text/plain 6067 330 46 Recently, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2), commonly known as coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly spread across China and around the world. In the current SARS-COV-2 pandemic, Wu and McGoogan (2020) showed that patients with chronic diseases, including diabetes, were at higher risk for severe COVID-19 infection and mortality. The former (S) is the wild type which is milder while the latter (L) is the novel one which resulted in high binding affinity between SARS-COV-2 virus with angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptor in human cells. The use of convalescent plasma was recommended before as an important treatment during outbreaks of Ebola virus, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, SARS-COV-1, H5N1 avian influenza, and H1N1 influenza (Zhou et al. In a study involving patients with pandemic influenza (H1N1) and SARS virus, treatment of severe infection with convalescent plasma was associated with reduced respiratory viral load, serum cytokine response, and mortality (Cheng et al. ./cache/cord-268206-ino9srb6.txt ./txt/cord-268206-ino9srb6.txt