Incidence and mortality of COVID-19 disease in the Republic of Moldova in 2020

Abstract

The SARS-CoV-2 virus epidemic and pandemic is the greatest challenge for humanity at the beginning of the 21st century. Although, after 1984, civilization experienced this epidemiological phenomenon through HIV AIDS, atypical pneumonia, swine flu, bird flu, SARS-CoV-1, infections give way at the beginning of the century to chronic, non-infectious diseases. COVID-19 disease is a systemic disease affecting the whole body and all its organs and functions causing „cytokine storm”, hypercoagulation, metabolic disorder, poly organic insufficiency, and high mortality. This refers especially to patients with comorbidities, with somato-functional background disorder, and, to patients with metabolic syndrome - hypertension, hyperglycemia (diabetes, selective type 2 diabetes), dyslipidemia, and hyperlipidemia (obesity), and with inflammation chronic systemic, as a primary factor of pathophysiology.