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Omer Benjakob (February 9, 2020). "Never trust Wikipedia". Wired (magazine). Retrieved February 9, 2020. While a short and generic Wikipedia page on "coronavirus" had existed since 2013, the article about the "2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak" was created on January 5, 2020

Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Coronavirus.

PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles)
The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

Due to the rapid pace of medical research please note that references in this article that are over ten years old are likely to be removed and/or replaced with more recent references.

This article was nominated for merging with Orthocoronavirinae on 26 January 2019. The result of the discussion (permanent link) was to not merge.

This article has been viewed enough times in a single year to make it into the Top 50 Report annual list. This happened in 2020, when it received 33,689,841 views.

This article has previously been nominated to be moved. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination.

Discussions:

RM, Coronavirus → Coronavirus (group of viruses), Not moved, 18 March 2020, discussion
RM, Coronavirus → Orthocoronavirinae, Withdrawn, 18 August 2021, discussion
RM, Coronavirus → Orthocoronavirinae, Not moved, 23 December 2021, discussion

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