Early Guidelines and Protocols About COVID-19

Abstract

In just six months, the coronavirus changed the world very quickly. The protocols and guidelines to face and to manage the pandemic of COVID-19 is as fast as the changes in people’s lives during this period. However, some policies, protocols and guidelines are established. This article compiled the global management strategies for COVID-19 infection pandemic preparedness, the issues about peaking of the outbreak, and “flattening the curve”, and the guidelines and protocols by World Health Organization (WHO), Center for Disease Control (CDC), Brazil Ministry of Health, European Union guidelines, Panamerican Health Organization (PAHO), the protocols of China, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, and Infectous Diseases Society of America (IDSA). We searched the data in the main database (PubMed/Medline, Elsevier Science Direct, Scopus, Isi Web of Science, Embase, Exerpta Medica, UptoDate, Lilacs, Novel Coronavirus Resource Directory from Elsevier), and in the health Organizations around the world, such as World Health Organization, Panamerican Health Organization (PAHO), Center for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). We prior selected meta-analysis, systematic reviews, article reviews and original articles in this order. We reviewed 41 articles and sites and used 20 from March to June 2020, adopting the terms coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, novel coronavirus, Wuhan coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome, 2019-nCoV, 2019 novel coronavirus, n-CoV-2, covid, n-Sars-2, COVID-19, corona virus, coronaviruses, protocols, guidelines, CDC, WHO, European Union, PAHO, China, Italy, IDSA, with the tools MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), AND, OR, and characters [,“,; /., to ensure the best review topics. We concluded that all guidelines and protocols tend to use WHO as a reference with particular differences between countries. Also, the more the COVID-19 is known, the more the protocols and guidelines change.