09 Feb Information about COVID-19, What is Coronavirus?
The term coronavirus refers to a large family of viruses that cause colds common to severe pneumonia.
They affect numerous species of living beings. Seven of them (including the one discovered now in China, called Covid19) can affect people. Its envelope, seen under a microscope electronic, it looks like a crown. Hence its name.
What are the symptoms?
In the vast majority of cases, the symptoms are the same as those of a common cold or flu, such as fever, nasal congestion, musculoskeletal pain, weakness, sore throat and dry cough. These are usually mild and appear gradually.
Most people (over 80%) make a full recovery without requiring any special treatment. About 15% of infected people can have an episode moderate to severe that can be life-threatening. Usually these have predisposing conditions that complicate: advanced age, previous illnesses such as emphysema, asthma, poorly controlled diabetes, and heart disease.
Unlike other respiratory infections that affect and can be fatal in children, in the case of the coronavirus, children are the least affected and most pass the infection asymptomatic.
* Symptoms may appear 1 to 12 days after exposure to the virus.
How is it transmitted?
Being mainly a respiratory infection, the viral particles from the patient are suspended in the air when breathing, speaking, after sneezing or coughing. After a short trip, the particles fall by gravity and settle on surfaces, from where they can pass into hands or other parts of the body of healthy people and subsequently self-inoculate the virus by touching eyes, mouth or nose. It is for this reason that handwashing is so important. The surfaces we touch (door handles, handrails of stairs, money) can contain fresh viral particles with capacity infectious.
How deadly it is?
With the figures reported so far with the current infection of COVID19, mortality would be between 2-3% of the cases. That is, of 100 sick people, around 3 perish. Predisposing factors are diseases mentioned above and advanced age. If we compare mortality by age, the groups of 70 years and older achieve a mortality of 8-14%, in contrast to ages between 20-50 years in whom mortality is barely 0.2- 0.4%. Compared with other infections, these figures are lower than that of MERS coronaviruses (with a mortality of 36%) and SARS (10%), and if we go back to similar infections, such as 2009 H1N1 influenza, the Mortality is equal to the current COVID19 (0.2-3%). Not so the 1918 influenza pandemic, called the Spanish flu, which ended the lives of 40 million (some sources claim up to 100 million) people in 1 year.
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How to avoid getting infected?
Hand washing is the main measure. You can use alcohol gel before the impossibility to use soap and water. This measure eliminates viruses that may have remained in our hands after touching contaminated surfaces. Keep at least 1 meter away from people with respiratory symptoms. If that person coughs or sneezes, the particles are more likely to hit us.
Avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth, as these are gateways for the virus and many times we have not washed our hands and have touched some surface contaminated.
Masks or mouthguards have not been widely recommended. Currently the mask is recommended only for people with respiratory symptoms, health personnel attending cases and relatives assisting patients patients with coronavirus. The use of masks in some countries or places, like airports, it is more given by fear than by real efficiency. Maintain your immune system with a proper response, proper rest, balanced diet, avoid over-medication that can alter the intestinal lining where is the main defense barrier and the production of antibodies to maintain an adequate immune response. And in general, it’s worth living your life as before and not concentrating on Covid, even if you’re sick. Therefore, you can safely continue to play on the Slotogate platform using online pokies with payid
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