What Happens When You Get The Coronavirus Disease?

1. What is a coronavirus?
Coronavirus is a large number of viruses that usually cause mild respiratory diseases. But there are also coronaviruses that cause more serious diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). Novel Coronavirus 2019 is a new coronavirus that can cause pneumonia. You may see other terms used to name the virus, including: 2019 nCoV, COVID-19, or SARS-CoV-2).

2. What are the symptoms of coronavirus?
Most coronaviruses cause respiratory diseases, including coughing and fever. Coronavirus is one of the viruses that cause the common cold. Symptoms may include a runny nose, headache, cough, sore throat, and / or fever.

3. How does this virus spread?
Like MERS and SARS, COVID-19 is very similar to coronaviruses in bats, but different from humans. Scientists believe that the gene of the bat virus has changed, allowing it to spread to humans.
When we cough or sneeze, the virus can spread from person to person through droplets in the nasal cavity or mouth. These droplets can directly enter the nose, mouth or eyes of the person standing next to them, or they can spread indirectly through hands and stationary objects.
The most common route of transmission of human coronaviruses is through close personal contact such as coughing, sneezing, shaking hands, or touching the surface with the virus, and then touching your mouth, nose, or eyes before washing your hands.

4. Is there a vaccine for COVID-19?
Currently, there is no COVID-19 vaccine. Efforts are underway to develop vaccines. However, it is unclear whether an effective vaccine will emerge in time to affect the epidemic. Until then, we must treat it as vaccine-free.
You can help prevent the spread of disease by frequently washing your hands with soap and tap water, staying home when you are sick, avoiding close contact with people who are sick, covering coughing or sneezing with tissues, and cleaning and disinfecting items and furniture.

5. How is this virus treated?
The vast majority (at least 98-99%) of patients with COVID-19 recover only by their immune response. Treatment is supportive care for symptoms, fluid intake, and isolation / observation. About 10-20% of the cases are seriously ill and require hospitalization. These patients also receive supportive care and treatment to treat infection complications (pneumonia, dyspnea, etc.). Experimental antiviral treatments are being studied.