Prevalence Of Coronavirus (Covid-19)
Coronavirus is an infection that affects the human respiratory organs. It originated in China, affecting approximately one hundred thousand people. The number of infections is increasing, making it difficult for experts to determine the extent of the contamination, the number of people having a mild infection, and their possibility of transmitting the virus. It is also difficult to assess how dangerous it can be.
Causes
The virus is transmitted in the form of tiny droplets from an infected person to a healthy person. Scientists have not yet identified the exact duration that the Coronavirus can dwell on surfaces. Still, research has shown that the virus slowly survives in warm weather, unlike in colder areas (Lipsitch, Swerdlow, & Finelli, 2020). The common signs and symptoms portrayed by this infection are difficulty in breathing, coughing, high fever, lesions in the lungs, and pneumonia. Other symptoms are gastrointestinal complications and diarrhea. (Novel, 2020).
Treatment And Prevention
Treatment involves carrying out a test to determine any cases of infection. If there is any confirmed case, the patient is placed under enough oxygen supply by use of ventilators that pushes air into the lungs, reducing fever, patients also drink more fluids. Some drugs have been tested for a possible vaccine for Coronavirus. Donald Trump, the president of the United States, brought the world to notice that chloroquine, which is a drug used to treat both arthritis and Malaria, has been approved to test for COVID-19.
Trial for Favilar is underway in Guangdong province in China. It has been tested in over seventy patients showing efficacy with fewer side effects.At-100 vaccine is effective in minimizing inflammation and any possible infection in the lungs. Lastly, the Actemra vaccine has been designed for the treatment of related complications of Coronavirus, such as overreaction of the immune system. It can be prevented by enforcing basic hand hygiene, wearing face masks, cancellation of traveling plans, use of bans to restrict people from severely affected countries moving to less affected countries, infected people have been tracked down by use of cell phones to prevent further spread also officials from the government move from door to door following up on people infected with the virus.
Effects
Coronavirus pandemic has brought tremendous impacts to most countries. It has affected diplomatic relations in countries such as Korea and Japan; education has been altered since more than nine hundred million students are not attending schools, socio-economics of some countries has been affected due to shortage of supply as well as disruption of some factories, culture has been influenced whereby major events such concerts, sports, and religious services have been canceled.Besides, racism has become rampant in most countries.
Conclusion
Companies such as Novanax are in the process of developing a vaccine for COVID-19. (Gilbert, Pinotti, Valdano, Poletto, Boëlle, & Gutierrez, 2020). Efforts to delay the spread of the virus should be put in place to give health officials more time to stock hospitals with respirators and test kits and also to enable the local governments and companies such as those dealing with communication to come up with enough strategies.