Histopathology of COVID-19: An illustration of the findings from fatal cases

Abstract

COVID-19 represents the greatest global public health crisis since the influenza pandemic of 1918 (1). Since its first report in December, 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus responsible for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has efficiently transmitted from person to person, and two years after the declaration of the pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), it has caused approximately 481,756,671 infections and 6,127,981 deaths worldwide (2).