With the steady rise in the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide, efforts to study the SARS-CoV-2 virus have also increased. This has led to a better understanding of the disease and the measures that should be taken to contain the pandemic. The present article focuses on the results obtained from a global survey conducted to understand the changing perceptions of the HCPs and the patients about the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 global physician survey To understand the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical practice worldwide, a weekly survey was conducted by M3 Global research.

A total of 4194 doctors were interviewed in the second week from the USA, UK, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Italy, and other European countries. The most dramatic shift observed was that more number of doctors now consider COVID-19 to be a severe threat. This figure has,…