What are the symptoms? What distinguishes coronavirus from other influenza-like illness? When coronavirus is suspected, what should you do?
Show notes and references
CME credit: https://www.acponline.org/cme-moc/cme/internal-medicine-podcasts/core-im
ACP Interactive Learning Module
Time Stamps



01:30 Novel parts of coronavirus


03:00 What symptoms do patients present with for the novel coronavirus?


04:22 What distinguishes coronavirus from other influenza-like illness?


05:31 When coronavirus is suspected, what should you do?


07:13 What does testing for coronavirus entail?


09:06 What kind of isolation is required?


10:13 Do patients need to be isolated in biocontainment units?


10:42 What is treatment for the novel coronavirus?


12:30 Potential for vaccines


15:23 What is R0?


17:12 Animal reservoirs with 2019-nCoV, SARS, and MERS


19:18 What should we tell patients for prevention?