An acute respiratory infection runs into the most common noncommunicable epidemic — COVID-19 and cardiovascular diseases

What The Viewpoint Says:

Emerging as an acute infectious disease, COVID-19 may be- come a chronic epidemic similar to influenza because of genetic re- combination. Therefore, we should be ready for the reemergence of COVID-19 or other coronaviruses.

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