Raghavendra Rao M.V
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT MEDICAL AND
PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH
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Volume 8; Issue 07(A); July 2022; Page No.321-325
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/23956429.ijcmpr20220074
Research Article
A CITATION, DISTINCTION, HONOR, AND TRIBUTE, TO FRONTLINE
CORONA WARRIORS
Raghavendra Rao M.V
1
, Vijay Kumar Chennamchetty
2
, MM Karindas
3
,
Ilie Vasiliev
4
, Hitesh Lakshmi Billa
5
, Mahendra Kumar Verma
6
and Manickdass
7
1
Department of Medicine, Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
2
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Apollo Institute of Medical Science and Research, Hyderabad, TS, India
3
Department of Oncology, World Academy of Medical Sciences, Netherlands
4
Department of Internal Medicine, World Academy of Medical Sciences, Netherlands
5
Interventional Pulmonology, Apollo Institute of Medical Science and Research, Hyderabad, TS, India
6
Department of Basic Sciences, American University School of Medicine, Aruba, Caribbean islands, Netherlands Antilles
7
Department of Microbiology, Apollo Institute of Medical Science and Research, Hyderabad, TS, India
ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT
2020 was a healthdevastating year. Pandemics do not die-they fade away.COVID-19 disease appears
to have been associated with significant mortality amongst doctors and health care workers globally.
The forfeit that they are making for the safety and welfare of human is invaluable. The frontline
warriors like the doctors, Health Department officials, tahsildars, executive officers etc., have been
working relentlessly to save lives, thereby keeping the death rate at the lowest. 'Death and grief has
made us numb. The sleep-abated champions encompasses doctors, nurses, medical cleaners,
pathologists, paramedics, ambulance drivers, and health-care administrators.
Copyright © 2022 Raghavendra Rao M.V et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
INTRODUCTION
COVID-19 is correlated with an acute respiratory distress
syndrome (ARDS) and severe pneumonia (1) origin of this
virus, SARS-CoV-2 probably arises from a natural selection in
the animal host or a selection in humans (2)
This virus is preferred in cells of the respiratory tract,
epithelial hair cells of the airways and type 2 alveolar
pneumocytes in SARS-CoV infections [3]
“It makes no difference whether you get infected and then
vaccinated, or if you get vaccinated and then a breakthrough
infection,” said FikaduTafess, co-author of the study. “In
either case, you will get a really, really robust immune
response — amazingly high (4)After two years of a pandemic
that has seen nearly 500 million people infected and billions
vaccinated, the studies highlighted the importance of getting
jabbed for those who have natural immunity after recovering
from the disease (5)
COVID-19 disease, may lead to respiratory failure and
mechanical ventilation (6) Respiratory failure with mechanical
ventilation need was reported in 2.3% up to 33% of the
affected patients (7,8)
Recently, however, autopsy studies have been published from
throughout the world that have defined diffuse alveolar
damage (DAD) as the histopathologic hallmark of severe
SARS-CoV-2 infection (9) Identifying co-infections of more
than one respiratory virus can help with understanding the
various clinical symptoms, long-lasting effects on health, and
appropriate methods of prevention (10)
As of April 11, 2020, a total of 20,043 people died due to the
COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in America, while
approximately 521,084 cases have been registered in the
national healthcare system(11) The novel Coronavirus SARS-
CoV-2 outbreak has created a significant impact on the daily
life and health care systems across the world including India
(12,13)
Article History:
Received 06
th
April, 2022
Received in revised form 14
th
May, 2022
Accepted 23
rd
June, 2022
Published online 28
th
July, 2022
Key words:
COVID-19, Coronavirus, Pandemics,
Physicians, Health personnel, Health
care, Mortality,