Attention! Current information on March 26!
Hello! I know that around the beta-coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, well, or COVID-19, coronavirus or corona, now there is a lot of hype, and just as much panic, but is it really worth it so afraid of this virus? Which is already loudly called PANDEMIC!
If you read the meaning of the word pandemic on Wikipedia, it becomes clear that this is not some kind of epidemic that mows up a large part of the world's population, but just a disease that has spread throughout the globe, and at the same time, most of the population does not have immunity to this disease . That is, a pandemic does not mean that we are finished, but that a new disease has just begun to spread across the globe...
For example, the coronavirus infected 476 300 people, this is only 0.00618571% of the world's population! A negligible amount! And generally 0.00027848% died! For example, from the flu every year from 290 to 650 thousand people die! And about 4 million people get the flu.
I think you already realized that COVID-19 is not such a terrible virus. For example, take the last pandemic before COVID-19, the pandemic of the Spanish or Spanish flu, and compare its performance with COVID-19.
................. Characteristic ,,,,,,,,,,,,, Spanish, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, COVID-19.
The number of infected: ............ 550 million ............ 476 300 ....
The death toll: ............................... 50-100 million ...... 21443 .......
Mortality as a percentage: ......... 13.6% ......................4.5% ..........
Number of infection / people: .. 29.5% ..................... 0.00618571%
Number of deaths / people: ...... ~ 4% ...................... 0.00027848%
I think these characteristics are enough to understand that COVID-19 is much weaker than H1N1 (Spanish)
Of course, I don’t argue that COVID-19 can become as dangerous as a Spanish as a result of some kind of mutation, but nowadays, due to the fact that we can respond very quickly to everything, we are able to stop this pandemic, for example, the Spanish H1N1 virus appeared in April 1918, and a month later, in May 1918, he had already infected 8 million people! And the coronavirus still hasn’t infected even a million!
The epidemic has stopped in China! I believe that China is a good example of the fight against the virus. In contrast, Italy, in just a couple of months, reached the same infected level as China, while keeping in mind that the population density of China is many times greater than the population density of Italy. (If anything, I have nothing against Italy!)
Where did he come from?
According to the official version, betacoronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was transferred to humans through an unknown intermediary animal that transmitted SARS-CoV-2 from bats.
Symptoms
Taken from Wikipedia.
According to case analysis of 1099 patients as of February 28, the main symptoms are:
fever in 88.7% of cases (in the study defined as 37.5 ° C and above);
cough in 67.8% of cases.
Other symptoms include:
fatigue in 38.1% of cases;
shortness of breath in 18.7% of cases;
muscle or joint pain in 14.9% of cases;
sore throat in 13.9% of cases;
headache in 13.1% of cases.
Sputum departs in 33.7% of cases. Symptoms of gastroenteritis, including diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting, are less common. Recent reports suggest cold symptoms in the event of a mild illness. Nasal congestion occurs in 4.8% of cases.
Fever is the most common among those hospitalized, however, less than half of the patients develop before hospitalization. The temperature does not rise in all patients. Above 39 ° C, body temperature rises in 12.3% of patients.