Coronavirus: what do we know about it and as to be saved from it?

About a coronavirus all have heard a lot literally, and here that it is actually, knows not everyone. It is possible for this reason the world gradually and is covered by panic. Nevertheless, at the last meeting of WHO the coronavirus after all was not recognized by global threat, and it means that it will hardly develop into the real epidemic. Whether this overseas virus how to distinguish it and whether it is possible to prevent possible infection is so really terrible? As they say, it is warned – means it is armed and therefore let's understand!

What represents COVID-19 and what it differs from seasonal flu in?

This abbreviation just also designates the coronavirus raging in a number of the countries, and it is not so some new exotic disease, and only one of kinds of it it is good all of the familiar phenomenon as a SARS. That is initially development of a coronavirus happens by analogy to a SARS. In couple of days after penetration of the ill-fated virus into an organism at the person such unpleasant symptoms as breath difficulty, pain in lungs, dry cough (sometimes – with blood) and sharp temperature increase can already be shown.

Both the SARS, and coronavirus make extremely negative impact on airways, however in the second case of a consequence can be much more unpleasant as at the people infected with a coronavirus as a complication viral pneumonia thanks to which the general indicator of mortality increases sometimes develops – if in a case with seasonal flu this figure makes less than one percent (if to be more precisely, 0.7%), in a situation with a coronavirus this indicator increases up to a mark of 3 – 4%. However it is at all not frightening 30 – 40% as some alarmists so excessively you should not exaggerate a problem too got used to think!

On average from the moment of infection until detection by the person of the first symptoms of a disease there pass about five days, however in some cases this process can occupy or slightly less, or much more time for this reason physicians also designate the incubatory period in fourteen days.

At whom risk to ache above?

Elderly people get into risk group first of all, that is citizens are more senior than sixty years and also the face of the Asian nations of any age and the people having any chronic illnesses (hearts, the vessels easy and so on). However, a renal failure, coronary heart disease, a hypertension, diabetes, bronchial asthma, oncology and an immunodeficiency – too rather serious occasion to prick up the ears and be kept because in all above-mentioned cases the coronavirus will proceed especially hard!

As for children with teenagers, they, one may say, were lucky – the percent of infection with a coronavirus in age group from 0 to 19 years is very insignificant! But, certainly, anyway nobody cancelled standard precautionary measures!

Than it is possible to cure a coronavirus?

And here unpleasant news – anything! No specialized medicines for treatment of a coronavirus, special vaccine for this misfortune exist now! You should not lay great hopes too and on "Arbidol" and also on antimalarial medicines and on means for fight against HIV infection – they unambiguously will not help to cure a coronavirus though some citizens also think differently. And immunomodulators in this case too will be powerless! Nevertheless, now the new virus is very actively studied in modern laboratories so it is possible that after some time pharmaceutical industry will begin to produce effective drugs and for this misfortune. And experts now too are engaged in development of vaccine, however, they assure that on creation of really effective vaccine can be required before half a year of time.

Parcels from China – whether to receive?

Unambiguously yes, as no such parcels pose the slightest threat to health – there are no confirmed data on the fact that the coronavirus can be transmitted through various objects, today. If it is not possible to overcome fear in any way, and the ordered parcel already just about will come, it is possible to disinfect just carefully received bagatelles. By the way, disinfection will not be superfluous in all cases and without coronavirus, what were conditions in warehouses where the goods were stored, it is known only to the seller!

Whether really to avoid infection?

Yes, quite, and for this purpose it is possible even to be limited to standard precautionary measures, that is rather just to do us all that we already got used to do in our ordinary life – to regularly wash hands (before food, after contact with sick people or animals, after visit of a toilet or upon return from walk in the park), to carry out systematic cleaning and airing of rooms, to maintain optimum humidity of air indoors and to use through sneezing or cough disposable tissues or to be content for these purposes with an elbow bend, but in any way not a palm because the palm in this case turns into a true nursery of microbes and, touching it surrounding objects, we significantly increase risk of infection of other people. And that who plans to use medical masks will not prevent to study previously the basic rules of their use to learn to treat correctly them. In general it is recommended to visit places of a mass congestion of people as seldom as possible.

And if SARS symptoms already appeared, it is desirable to try "to endure" the entire period of a disease of the house, and at emergence of the slightest complications it is necessary to see a doctor who will appoint the corresponding treatment and will make the decision on expediency of passing of the test for a coronavirus immediately. As a rule, such test is taken by citizens who visited the countries, "unsuccessful" on a coronavirus, not so long ago or contacted to the people who already caught this misfortune, in all other cases of a special reason for concern is not present.
You should not forget that at the majority caught a coronavirus, that is about at 80% of citizens, the disease proceeds only as usual cold, without heavy complications and the more so without transition to pneumonia! If to remember atypical pneumonia which the mankind faced at the beginning of two-thousand, then there the indicator of mortality was much higher, than now from a coronavirus – at that time it made about 10%! So excessively you should not panic in this case unambiguously!

And if someone nevertheless had open questions concerning a coronavirus, it is possible to set them, having called number 8-800-555-49-43 - it is number of the Uniform advice center which is specially created at Rospotrebnadzor.

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