COVID-19 pandemic: Preparing for the XXI century plague

ABSTRACT

Towards the end of 2019 in China, a new coronavirus produced acute respiratory infection appeared. It soon became a worldwide pandemic which has pushed all medical care systems to adopt protocols to manage the situation, adjust resources required and to adapt medical areas for patient care;Mexico declare national sanitary emergency on march 30, 2020. The response to this new infection requires to understand its disease mechanisms, design and evaluate treatments, control of medical resources and, above all, the contention and mitigation within the general population in order to reduce contagiousness as much as possible.