What is Corona virus ?
Hello friends on 5th February, 2020, due to the widely spreading corona virus all over the globe , more than 24,000 people have been infected and more than 494 people have died Is it really that dangerous? Do you really need to be afraid? Or is the media making a mountain out of a molehill and creating an atmosphere of fear? Come let us see The first thing you need to understand is that Corona Virus is
not the name of a single virus The name Corona Virus has been assigned to a family of viruses Should I tell you an interesting fact? The common cold- the cough and cold that you catch during winters- that too, is a type of Corona Virus In 2002-03, a SARS virus had become widespread, if you remember. That too, was a type of Corona Virus And what is affecting the people right now is a new type of Corona Virus There's a place in China called Wuhan It was found there on 31st December, 2019 This new strain of Corona Virus has been named N-COV - Novel Corona Virus Novel means new This strain is so new that they could not even think of a name So they named it Novel Corona Virus The new Corona Virus looks somewhat like this The original source of most of the Corona Viruses 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 the case of SARS, the original source was a bat MERS is another similar Corona Virus which spread in the Middle East during 2012-13 The original source of that was a camel The exact original source of the new Corona Virus which has not yet been discovered Some scientists suspect that the original source might be snakes But some scientists believe that they might be bats again because there are 96% similarities in the new corona virus as compared to the Corona Virus that came from bats The symptoms of all these Corona Viruses are very similar to each other For example,
cough, cold, headache, fever, chills, sore throat- All these happen 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 Corona Virus 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 Corona Virus When there are extreme cases of Corona Virus, 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 Corona Virus The incubation period of the Novel Corona Virus is between 2-11 days that is, if you are infected, it might take 11 days for the symptoms to show up This basically means that in the last two weeks if you haven't been to China or haven't been in touch with a Chinese person and despite that you're showing these symptoms, then you have no cause to worry This means that you have not contracted the Novel Corona Virus How dangerous is this virus, actually? How fatal is it for you? In order to know this, I'd like to show you some facts The total number of infected people until now are 24,579 Out of these, around 494 people have died And 955 people have recovered after becoming infected So looking at the total number infected people 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 incase you contract the infection or the Novel Corona Virus, then what are the chances that you are going to die because of it? 2% means that there is a 98% chance that you are not going to die because of it but you will eventually recover In fact, upon studying the cases until now, it has been found out that most of the people that died due to the Novel corona Virus already
had weak immune systems due to some other reasons Most of these people were elderly and old or their immune system was already weak beforehand for example, a heart disease or any other problem An interesting thing about viruses is that the virus that spreads more easily and is more contagious in general, its mortality rate is automatically less And the Viruses that have a higher mortality rate are less contagious For example, ebola The mortality rate of Ebola was 70% That is if you contract Ebola, then there are 70% chances that you are going to die because of that But only 3,000 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 Both chicken pox and common cold spread very easily But in case you contract it, then the mortality rate of common cold is 0.01% So all of this can be represented on a graph The mortality rate is plotted on the Y axis and the contagiousness, that is, how easily it can spread is plotted on the x axis Mortality rate is measured in percentage and there is a number to measure contagiousness This number means that one infected person will infect how many other people on an average For example, look at the contagiousness number of common cold- it is 6 This means that if a person contracts common cold, then on average, he will infect 6 more people This is very high contagiousness The contagiousness of chicken pox is even more- around 8.5 As for other examples, consider Swine flu. Its contagiousness and mortality rate both are very low - Output Rephrased/Re-written Text Hello friends As on 5th February, 2020, thanks to the widely spreading corona virus everywhere the world , more than 24,000 people are infected and over 494 people have died Is it really that dangerous? does one actually need to be afraid? Or is that the media making a mountain out of a molehill and creating an environment of fear? Come allow us to see The first thing you would like to grasp is that Corona Virus isn't the name of one virus The name Corona Virus has been assigned to a family of viruses Should I tell you a noteworthy fact? The common cold- the cough and cold that you just catch during winters- that too, may be a sort of Corona Virus In 2002-03, a SARS virus had become widespread, if you remember. That too, was a sort of Corona Virus And what's affecting the people without delay may be a new sort of Corona Virus There's a place in China called Wuhan It was found there on 31st December, 2019 This new strain of Corona Virus has been named N-COV - Novel Corona Virus Novel means new This strain is so new that they may not even consider a reputation So they named it Novel Corona Virus The new Corona Virus looks somewhat like this The original source of most of the Corona Viruses is generally some animal which affects somebody's so later through human to human contact and through human to human transmission, these corona viruses spread amongst humans For example, within the case of SARS, the initial source was a bat MERS is another similar Corona Virus which spread within the geographical area during 2012-13 The original source of that was a camel The exact original source of the new Corona Virus which has not yet
been discovered Some scientists suspect that the initial source could be snakes But some scientists believe that they could be bats again because there are 96% similarities within the new corona virus as compared to the Corona Virus that came from bats The symptoms of of these Corona Viruses are very kind of like one another For example, cough, cold, headache, fever, chills, sore throat- All these happen to you even once you catch a cough and cold normally or once you catch a seasonal flu And these are the symptoms of the New Corona Virus too This is an unfortunate thing because thanks to this, it's very difficult to acknowledge when you have contracted a standard seasonal flu and once you have contracted the New Corona Virus When there are extreme cases of Corona Virus, then one may contract pneumonia too But generally, the doctors should perform a laboratory test to acknowledge whether it's a standard flu or the New Corona Virus The period of time of the Novel Corona Virus is between 2-11 days that is, if you're infected, it'd take 11 days for the symptoms to point out up This basically implies that within the last time period if you haven't been to China or haven't been in grips with a Chinese person and despite that you're showing these symptoms, then you've got no cause to fret This means that you just haven't contracted the Novel Corona Virus How dangerous is that this virus, actually? How fatal is it for you? In order to grasp this, I'd prefer to show you some facts The total number of infected people til now are 24,579 Out of those, around 494 people have died And 955 people have recovered after becoming infected So staring at the total number infected people and therefore the total number of deaths as a proportion, then this comes resolute be approximately 2% This 2% is that the morbidity Mortality rate implies that incase you contract the infection or the Novel Corona Virus, then what are the possibilities that you just are
visiting die due to it? 2% implies that there's a 98% chance that you just don't seem to be visiting die due to it but you may eventually recover In fact, upon studying the cases til now, it's been discovered that most of the those who died thanks to the Novel corona Virus already had weak immune systems thanks to another reasons Most of those people were elderly and old or their system was already weak beforehand as an example, a cardiopathy or the other problem An interesting thing about viruses is that the virus that spreads more easily and is more contagious in general, its morbidity is automatically less And the Viruses that have the next morbidity are less contagious For example, ebola The morbidity of Ebola was 70% That is if you contract Ebola, then there are 70% chances that you just are visiting die due to that But only 3,000 cases were reported. So Ebola wasn't that contagious On the opposite hand, take the instance of respiratory illness or chicken pox Both of them are highly contagious Both chicken pox and customary cold spread very easily But just in case you contract it, then the morbidity of respiratory illness is 0.01% So all of this may be represented on a graph The morbidity is plotted on the Y axis and the contagiousness, that is, how easily it can spread is plotted on the x axis Mortality rate is measured in percentage and there's variety to live contagiousness This number implies that one infected person will infect what percentage people on a median For example, have a look at the contagiousness number of common cold- it's 6 This means that if someone contracts respiratory illness, then on the average, he will infect 6 more people This is very high contagiousness The contagiousness of chicken pox is even more- around 8.5 As for other examples, consider swine influenza. Its contagiousness and morbidity both are very low
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