Keywords
COVID-19, pneumonia, clinical signs, severity
Abstract
The COVID-19 epidemic has presented healthcare professionals with new and complex challenges related to the need for emergency diagnosis and provision of adequate medical care to patients. The rapid change in the epidemiological situation, the receipt of a large amount of often conflicting information about the clinical features of the infection, insufficient information about the possibilities of treating this disease determine the complexity and magnitude of the problem. It is believed that bilateral pneumonia is a very common clinical manifestation of this variant of coronavirus infection, in a significant number of cases there is the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome, which is associated with a very high risk of death.