Health professionals say that worrying about COVID-19 will not help you deal with the epidemic. Nor will the novel treat coronaviruses, a highly unpredictable disease for which there is no 100% successful therapeutic treatment with nothing less than extreme caution.
In short, it affects everyone differently.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the past three decades, told CNN Monday night that Trump “looked like he was in very good shape” after leaving hospital, but noted the ability to “rearrange”. In his condition in the coming days. (Fauci said he is not involved in Trump’s care.)
“The point is that he is still early enough in the disease that it is no secret that if you look at people’s clinical course, sometimes when you are in five to eight days, you reverse. Can be, ”said Fauci. “It is unlikely that this will happen, but they need to make heads for it. He knows it, physicians know it. So they are going to monitor it; They are tried and within the White House boundaries as opposed to in the hospital. ”
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‘COVID is an absolute threat to the American population.’
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The world still has much to learn about the novel coronavirus – and that alone, experts say, should be enough to inspire communities to work together to slow down their progress. Scientists do not recommend mass hysteria, but they also do not believe that going about business as usual is a wise move.
Dr. of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. “COVID is an absolute threat to the American population,” David Ness told The Associated Press. “Most people are not as fortunate as the president,” citing Trump’s extensive medical team and access to trial treatment.
Governments around the world are struggling to stop the spread of the epidemic. (An epidemic is a disease that infects areas or a community.) The “Spanish flu” from 1918 to 1919 and the Black Death from 1347 to 1351 were two of the most extreme epidemics ever recorded.
According to data collected by Johns Hopkins University, coronoviruses killed at least 210,195 people in the US as of Tuesday, and there were 7,458,550 confirmed cases. Worldwide, there were 35,504,196 confirmed cases of the virus and 1,044,311 deaths.
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On Monday evening, Trump said, “Maybe I’m immune.” A disease immunity typically exhibits no symptoms for the disease and, in the case of COVID-19, will not require oxygen and hospitalization.
According to doctors and scientists, there are five reasons why people should be cautious:
President Trump waves from behind a car in a motorcycle outside Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, on Sunday night. He returned to the White House on Monday.
1. There is no vaccine
There is no COVID-19 vaccine. If and / or when one is available, it is unlikely to be distributed to the general public by mid-2021, according to several estimates. Border workers, people with antecedent status and older people will likely be first in line.
What’s more, humans have not built immunity over many generations. The first vaccine can be 40% effective, and be delivered while the world awaits a more successful vaccine. The measles vaccine is the most effective, providing 97% immunity.
However, Fauci stated that the best case scenario for a COVID-19 vaccine based on other vaccines for various diseases would be 70 to 75% effective.
In this perspective: A review of previous studies has found that, according to a review of studies by the Mayo Clinic, the average flu vaccine is about 50% to 60% effective for healthy adults, who are between 18 and 64 years of age. .
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According to an article in The Lancet, the first known person, the virus was contracted on 1 December in China, and turned into an epidemic within a few months. (Photo: Getty Images.)
2. COVID-19 is highly contagious
As a recent incident in the White House’s Rose Garden, the community expands, may even be outside. COVID-19 is highly contagious via invisible droplets in the air, which is transmitted through talk, breathing and coughing. Public-health experts advise people to be mindful and alert.
This is all the more necessary as children go back to school. A recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics suggests that children can spread SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, even if they do not develop symptoms or long after symptoms clear up until after.
A separate systematic review estimated that 16% of children with a SARS-CoV-2 infection are asymptomatic, but evidence suggests that 45% of pediatric infections are asymptomatic, according to the USA Center for Disorder Control and Prevention.
Masked joggers who study the immunogenetics of the vaccine response in adults and children at the Mayo Clinic may also drop a 30-foot “drip slipstream” in their wake. “Can’t measure the virus,” he said.
Children respond to the virus in a different way than adults, and there is an increased risk for people with serious illness or deaths as they get older. (Photo: Damien Mayer / AFP via Getty Image)
3. Viruses work in strange ways
According to research published in August in the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, genes in the body that are a major factor providing access to SARS-CoV-2 to heart cells become more active with age.
Johns Hopkins University reported that “inflammation may be more acute in older people, causing organ damage”. “Lung tissue becomes less elastic over time, making respiratory diseases like COVID-19 a particular concern for older people,” the university said.
Health professionals say that adult patients can respond to COVID-19 with an overweight adaptive immune response that can promote inflammation associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome, a type of severe lung damage that is now severe COVID- Is associated with 19 cases.
Doctors today call that phenomenon “cytokine storm”, or hypersitokinemia, a process in which the immune system in healthy people reacts so strongly that a surge of immune cells and their active compounds (cytokines) can effectively affect the body. She transforms herself.
Some data suggest that 40% of carriers of coronavirus virus are caused by not displaying symptoms of the disease. (Photo: Marketwatch photo illustration / Getty Image, iStockphoto.)
4. Untold number of people are odd
Fauci said in July that in his 40 years of dealing with the viral outbreak, he had never seen anything like COVID-19, especially in a singular way that led to the biggest public-health crisis in a generation .
“I have never seen a virus – a pathogen – have a range, where 20% to 40% of people have no symptoms,” Fauci said during a meeting of the Energy and Commerce Committee on the Trump administration’s response to the epidemic. .
The World Health Organization currently estimates that 16% of people with COVID-19 are asymptomatic and can transmit coronaviruses, while other data suggest that 40% of coronavirus viruses are due to carriers not displaying symptoms of the disease.
A recent University of California, San Francisco, study found that pre-symptomatic patients also have an excessive load of SARS-CoV-2 in the upper respiratory tract, “which distinguishes it from SARS-CoV-1,” Where replication occurs. Mainly in the lower respiratory tract. ”
A recent European Respiratory Journal study states that the virus can attack an enzyme in the nose as a gateway to enter the body, which is why some people with COVID-19 have their sense of smell Lose it. It is also different from coronavirus flu in a way. (Photo: Getty Images / Marketwatch Photomontage.)
5. Flu season is coming to a close
As people move indoors in winter, flu season is drawing to a close and doctors are increasingly concerned about the “twidemic”. Both influenza and COVID-19 are unusable with antibiotics and have almost the same symptoms: fever, cough, night sweats, and fatigue.
Luis Ostrowski, a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America, said humans have “herd immunity” to the flu. “When there are enough people in the community who are immune, it protects those who are not immune,” he said. This is the case with the flu, but not with COVID-19.
COVID-19 and flu can result in fever, but formerly dry cough and may also result in a sense of smell and taste and chronic fatigue. Flu symptoms are usually characterized by a runny nose, sore throat, cough, aches and pains and chills.
In July, Fauci told Marketwatch that people should think twice before eating inside a restaurant. “The outside of the house is much worse than outside the house,” he said. And epidemiologist Ryan Mallosh of the Michigan School of Public Health said, “There is nothing magic about six feet.”
The country’s leading infectious disease specialist, who also works on the front lines of the AIDS epidemic, said, “We need to get down and go through this fall and winter, because it’s not easy.” Harvard Medical School last month.
AIDS, he reminded people, infected 76 million people worldwide and 33 million people died of that virus.
“We’ve been there before,” Fauci said. “Never, never underestimate the potential of an epidemic. Don’t try and look in favor of things.”
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