The Pandemic Hits Us Hard, but We Don’t Lose Hope

Krisna Yuarno Phatama (Orthopaedic Department Saiful Anwar General Hospital Malang Universitas Brawijaya Malang)
Sholahuddin Rhatomy, MD
Asep Santoso
Nicolaas C. Budhiparama

The Hip and Knee Journal
Vol 2, No 1 (2021): February

At the end of 2019, we faced a new variant of the coronavirus that can cause pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome-like symptoms. It started in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, and spread quickly to the whole world.This new virus is called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and can manifest as a disease called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). On March 13th, 2020 World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic, and the story of frightening pandemic begin.