Dr. Ashoojit Kaur Anand | Appointment booking number: 89715 44066
General Physician & Community Medicine Specialist | PCMH Restore Health, Bangalore
All the three are respiratory infections and all the three are caused by different types of coronaviruses and the symptoms are also similar and the mild symptoms. When they progress onto moderate and severe, they all end up with breathlessness and respiratory distress and they need oxygen support and they need further management with antivirals and steroids. The main difference is that the incubation period what call, that is the period from where the patient gets infected the period where a person comes up with fever, cough, cold , which varies in all the three in a few days the COVID -19 is the one with 1 to 14 days and in SARS it is about 6 to 7 days and in MERS it is again about a week’s time, that is the incubation period and the management is also almost similar. The severity of the illness is very different in all the three. The most severe is the SARS, then comes the MERS. In COVID-19 the severity is less. the people who require hospitalization is about 3 to 5 %, whereas people who fall sick is higher with SARS and MERS and the outcome of the diseases, that is the people dying because of an infection is more with SARS and MERS as compared with COVID.
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