NEW NAME FOR DEATH: COVID-19
- MHK
- Apr 20, 2020
- 1 min read
DATE: APRIL 20/ 2O2O
AUTHOR: Mahir Kaya
GENERAL INFORMATION:
*Letters of COVID-19 stand for corona virus disease of 2019. Corona virus spread the world from China, Wuhan in December 3, 2019. It soon spread the world in time less than a year. You can find a detailed map for the spread of the COVID-19 at the link below:
WORLDWIDE
CONFIRMED CASES: 2,435,876
RECOVERED: 639,239
DEATHS: 167,369
DEATH RATIO: ~%6.87
SYMPTOMS:
Symptoms for COVID-19 are fever, dry cough and tiredness. However some patients can experience aches, pain, runny nose, diarrhea etc. %80 Percent of the patients recover without the need of special treatment. Corona can spread by contact or cough. See the source for detailed information: https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses#:~:text=symptoms
AGE GROUPS:
As we can see, elderly people are at most risk compared to the other age groups.
CURE:
There is no cure for COVID-19 yet. Then what should we do? We should social distance in order to make the spread of the disease slower. We should do that in order to decrease the density of people in the medical centers and hospitals. But we should remember that social distancing is not social isolation.
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