Guest post by Julianne Beall
In the March 2 blog post COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019), we said that we were not sure where to tell you to class works on COVID-19. Now we have updated WebDewey with three new subdivisions of 616.241 Pneumonia:
- 616.2412 Bacterial pneumonia
- 616.2414 Viral pneumonia
- 616.2416 Fungal pneumonia
We have indexed "COVID-19 (Disease)—medicine" to 616.2414 Viral pneumonia.
What about the non-respiratory complications of COVID-19? These two notes under 616.1-616.9 Specific diseases are relevant:
Class a work treating all the complications of a disease with the disease, e.g., all the complications of diabetes mellitus 616.462
Class a work that focuses on one specific complication with the complication, e.g., peripheral nerve disorders associated with diabetes mellitus 616.856
Thus, a work about all the complications of COVID-19 would be classed with COVID-19 in 616.2414 Viral pneumonia, but a work that focused only on renal failure as a complication of COVID-19 would be classed in 616.614 Renal failure.
The number 616.2414 Viral pneumonia can be added at various places in the 610s and elsewhere. For example, the interdisciplinary number and social services number for viral pneumonia in humans (including COVID-19) is 362.1962414. The number for incidence of and public measures to prevent viral pneumonia in humans (including COVID-19) is 614.592414.
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