COVID-19: Background, Infection, Spreading, And Future Guess

    This new decade started with lots of disasters such as huge forest fires in Australia and Ukraine, strong earthquakes and more like this. However, a disaster certainly is the worst in 2020 that is SARS-CoV-2 (also known as COVID-19)

   COVID-19 is part of the virus family. There are several parts of viruses with this family like SARS and MERS. In 2002-2003, SARS appeared in the world. It infected 8.000 people and killed 800 people. In 2012, MERS appeared like SARS worldwide. It infected 2500 people and killed 900 people.

   COVID-19 is a developed version of other old viruses. General idea is that this virus appeared in a wet market in Wuhan with pangolins and bats. Unlike others, it spreads fast and it has 3 types of unusual proteins; Spikes (S) protein, Membrane (M) protein, and Envelope (E) protein. Spikes are really important for this virus because they are used as a key to get inside a cell in our body.

  

   When it gets inside our body, the virus's viral genetic material makes more copies itself. This process normally quite hard viruses because they have to find a ribosome to copy itself but this interesting virus already has a ribosome. For this reason, it copies faster than the other. Ribosome is also used for genetic information from the virus to make viral spikes proteins. Then, the virus uses Golgi to create a new virus.

  

 After we infected, we have symptoms 8 ones are stand out:

⚫ Chest pain

⚫ Difficulty Breathing

⚫ Coughing

⚫ Fever and Chills

⚫ Confusion

⚫ Headache 

⚫ Muscle Pain

⚫ Fatigue

However, no symptoms that make it even harder to control virus spreading. It also depends on your age, your condition that you already have the diseases such as Cancer or Diabetes.

   Unfortunately, we have not found a certain treatment way to solve this problem. We use some medicine for patients that are used for malaria. Over 4 million people get infected with COVID-19 but 1.5 million patients get rid of the virus with medicines and intubation. 

   It spreads easily because when infected people talk, cough or sneeze, their droplets carry the virus. When you sneeze into your hands, your hands are the exact spreader. If you touch somewhere, you spread your virus everywhere and if healthy people touch there, they might be infected. 

  What should we do to prevent the spread of the virus?

1- Sneeze into your elbows not your hands

2- If you sneeze into a tissue, throw it and wash your hands

3- Wash your hand regularly for at least 20 seconds, 

4- Stay home 🏠

5- Keep 1.5 metres away from others

6- Use hand sanitizer

7- If you go outside, you should wear a facemask 

8- Avoid touching your face

If you do all of them, your possible infection rate certainly eliminates.

   The world has changed because of this virus. World economies are getting worse than ever, depression and stress level is really high. When we go outside, aware people wear their masks and use a hand sanitizer that is extraordinary. Unfortunately, viruses are an inseparable part of our lives. If we get rid of COVID-19, we might face with other stronger virus because lots of viruses are in the world. Some of them in the Arctic which are freeze and other ones are in the impenetrable forests. So, we should find a vaccine or medicine to overcome this problem. The most important thing for me we should prepare something for other new viruses. We get lots of experience on how to control COVID-19. We use them and be ready for the new threads.