CoronaVirus - Symptoms , Is it dangerous , Infections , Cure , Conclusion

CoronaVirus

As on 5^th February 2020, more than 24,000 people have been infected and 494 people have dead.

Is it really dangerous? Do You really need to be afraid?

Or is the media is creating an atmosphere of fear?

Come Let Us See - 

WHAT IS CORONAVIRUS?

The first thing we need to understand is that coronavirus is family of viruses.

Should I tell you an interesting fact?

The common cold _ the cough and the cold that you catch during the winters – that too, is a type of corona virus.

In 2002 – 2003, A SARS is also a type of coronavirus and right now this is a new type of CoronaVirus.

There is a place in china Wuhan it was found there on 31^st December 2019 the new strain of CoronaVirus has been named N-COV – Novel coronavirus, Novel means New so this strain is so new that they could not even think of a name so they named it Novel CoronaVirus The new coronavirus looks somewhat like this. the original source of most of the corona virus is mostly some animal which affects a human and then later through human to human contact and through human to human transmission, these corona viruses spread amongst humans.

For Example, in case of SARS, bat was the original source, another similar Corona Virus MERS which spread in 2012-13 but the camel was the original source.

The original source of coronavirus is not yet being discovered.

SYMPTOMS

The symptoms of all these coronaviruses are very similar to each other.

For Example, sore throat , headache , cold , cough , chills , fever. 

All these happens to you even when you catch a cough and cold normally or when you catch a seasonal flu and these are the symptoms of the new coronavirus too .

This is an unfortunate thing because due to this , it is very difficult to recognize when you have contracted a normal seasonal flu and when you have contracted the new coronavirus .

when there are extreme cases of coronavirus, then one may contract pneumonia too but generally, the doctors have to perform a laboratory test to recognize whether it is a normal flu or  the new coronavirus the incubation period of the novel corona virus is between 2 – 11 days that is , if you are infected , it may be take 14-16  days to show the symptoms. This is basically means that in the last two weeks if you have not been in touch with a Chinese person and despite that you are shoeing these symptoms, the you have no cause to worry this means that you have not contracted the new coronavirus.

IS IT DANGEROUS?

How dangerous is the virus, actually, how fatal is it for you?

In order to know this, I had like to show you some facts 

The total number of infected people as on 5th february 2020 until now are, 24,579 out of these, around 494 people have died and 995 people have recovered after becoming infected so looking at the total number and the total number of deaths as a proportion, then this comes out to be approximately 2%, This 2% is the mortality rate.

Mortality rate means that in case you contract the infection or the coronavirus, then what are the chances that you are going to die because of it? 2% means that there is a 98% chance you are not going to die because of it but you will eventually recover. In fact, upon studying the most of the people that died due to corona virus already had weak immune systems due to some other reasons. Most of the people were elderly and old or their immune system was already week beforehand.

For Example, Ebola the mortality rate of Ebola was 70% that is if you contract Ebola there are 70% chances that you are going to die because of that but only 3,400 cases were reported. So Ebola was not that contagious

On the other hand,

Take the example of common cold or chicken pox both of them are highly contagious and spread very easily but in case you contract it, The SARS had a mortality rate of 10%

So it is being estimated that the mortality rate of the novel coronavirus will amount to around 2% but enough data is not available in order to measure how contagious it is.

 A range has been designated that the novel coronavirus will fall within so by this we can conclude that in comparison to the SARS, EBOLA, MERS the novel corona virus is less deadly because it mortality rate is lesser than all of these but it might be more contagious than them because when SARS had become widespread then it had infected around 8,000 people globally within 8 months and this corona virus already infected 24000 – 25000 people three times more people have been infected and unfortunately, a lower mortality rate does not mean that fewer people are going to die in total.

For example, take an example of Spanish flu which happened in 1918-20, if you read it in the history books the mortality rate of Spanish flu is only 10 %.

HOW INFECTION HAPPENS?

The infection of the novel coronavirus spreads the same way that cough and cold spreads amongst people if someone coughs or sneezes then bodily fluids of the infected person reach the other people and they too, infectected so the ways of prevention are the same as that of a common cold world health organization recommends washing hands very frequently in the proper manner.

Whenever you cough or sneeze, then make use of tissue papers and handkerchiefs if they are not available, then you can make use of your elbow.

 By the way, not only for corona virus if you have a cold or a cough or any other form of  virus, then do not spread it in the public. 

surprisingly , the World Health Organization has said that masks are not very effective in protecting you from the infection.

so do not think that you can go to a public place wearing a mask, then you would feel safe it would not make much of difference they say that washing hands with soaps is more effective in comparison to masks and masks should be used only by those that are infected themselves so that they do not spread their bodily fluids to others so if you are suspected to be infected, then you should must use mask.

WHAT IS THE CURE?

A Lot of treatments and cures have gone viral on social media to treat corona virus

For example, a WhatsApp forwards, consume garlic and treat your corona virus, some state that consuming bleach will treat the corona virus, some say that organic oil will cure it.

Our own government also think that corona virus can be cured by homeopathy and Ayurveda.

 A Hindu Mahasabha president says that consumption of Gaumutra and Cowdung can cure the corona virus.

The truth is that all of these messages are fake currently there is no vaccine exist only if your immune system is strong, then it can fight it and you can recover from it.

currently the vaccine under development it may take a year to introduce its vaccine. SARS took 20 months to introduce its vaccine.

The governments across the world are working towards the containing the spread of the virus and I feel that they have been successful to a large extent because 99% of the cases of infection 

All of them are concentrated on china and 90% of the cases in china too, are concentrated within just one region – Wuhan. 50 million people have been put in quarantine and rest of the world are trying to do same.

For Example, most of the countries banned Chinese tourists and 

most of the countries have sealed their borders with china.

CONCLUSION

In my opinion the people living outside of china have nothing to worry about maintain precautions but do not panic there has been so much fear mongering by the media an atmosphere of panic is being created almost as if the new virus is akin to zombie apocalypse it is not that big deal like I have shown you in this blog. 

Presently, all of these things are concentrated with in china.

Economically, it might have deleterious effect not only on china but also the world economy it has been estimated that china might face loss of up to 60% billion dollars due to this corona virus and the GDP growth rate might diminish by 1.5%.

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