Zeitschrift für Infektionskrankheiten und Therapie

Abstrakt

Disclosing Faults; correcting them; and revealing others vital, but yet unnoticed preventable prophylactic measures that must be implemented in battling against COVID-19?s pandemic

Dessalegn Temesgen

Every time, human being has responses against infectious diseases. These responses (measures) can work or miscarry out. A century ago, Spanish flue, today within the two decades, we have three pathogen viruses: SARS; MERS; and SARS-CoV-2. Regarding to prevalence, today’s COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is the leader in disrupting social configurations. Within 4 months we have 1.5 million people infected, among which 80000 fatal. At this time, when civilization is at its the highest level, why we do not implement the right prophylactic measures to stop this pandemic? Could this be because of business, or since corona is aggressive, stakeholders need time to understand its nature? The exact answer we may achieve after years (if not decades!).