Eps 1135: Covid-19

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A randomized, controlled clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of coronavirus vaccines in adults diagnosed with coronavirus disease in 2019 has begun. The study is supported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health .
The first participant in the study is an American who, after being quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which had moored in Yokohama, Japan, was returned to his home country and volunteered to participate in the study. This is the first clinical trial outside the United States to evaluate the safety and efficacy of coronavirus vaccines in adults with identified respiratory diseases. On January 27, Germany reported the first known case of an adult with the virus, a 33-year-old Bavarian who contracted the virus during a workshop visit by a Chinese colleague.
The first death linked to the novel coronavirus outside China was reported in the Philippines on February 2. A 44-year-old Chinese man travelled with his family to Manila before falling ill and being taken to hospital, where he later died of pneumonia.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this is a rapidly evolving situation, and reports of the number of people infected are rising rapidly. The new coronavirus, which scientists have dubbed nCoV, has emerged after international travel in several countries. The World Health Organization is responding to an outbreak of a new strain of coronvirus from Wuhan, China. In the United States, isolated cases have been reported from New York City, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization warned Americans to prepare for the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19 as the number of cases continues to rise. We will provide updated information and publish updated guidance as it becomes available.
So far, 53 cases have been identified in the United States, including one on the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan. To reduce confusion about the new coronavirus, health authorities have adopted the name COVID-19 to identify a strain that emerged in Wuhan, China, in December and infected at least one person in New York City and two people in Washington. D.C. The term "coronaviruses" refers to viruses that can be transmitted to animals and humans, including SARS, MERS and the common cold.
China is believed to be virus-free, with no confirmed cases, but billions of Chinese continue to be at risk of respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, bronchitis, diarrhea and other respiratory diseases.
According to the World Health Organization, seasonal flu causes 650,000 deaths worldwide each year. If you die, this is reported as flu-related death, and the only way to know if Covid 19 has caused such symptoms is to specifically test you for the virus. The first symptoms of Covod 19 are similar to those of a cold or flu.
The number of diseases caused by SARS - CoV-2 and the severity of the disease vary greatly in the United States and other countries.
Fourteen percent of confirmed cases were classified as mild, resulting in severe pneumonia and shortness of breath, according to a new coronavirus outbreak released on February 17 by China's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fourteen of these were severe, the vast majority of them with severe respiratory diseases such as fever, headaches, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. In what the agency called a "critical case," a patient in the US contracted severe pneumonia that could potentially lead to death. The majority of cases of SARS - CoV-2 in China are classified as "mild," with severe breathing problems and a severe cough that causes severe newborns and shortness of breath.
On 11 February 2020, ICTV announced the name of the new virus for the first time in its history as "CoV-2." The name was chosen because the virus is genetically related to the coronavirus, which caused a SARS outbreak in 2003.
National journalist Terrence McKenna speculated that China's President Xi Jinping may have been pressured not to declare the spread of the Covid-19 virus a pandemic. The report also raised questions about how well China is handling the developing health crisis, given the authoritarian nature of the Chinese government, which has spoken of its "authoritarian character," implying that authorities there could not do enough to stem the spread of disease. COVID 19 was announced in accordance with guidelines from the World Health Organization and the International Agency for Research on Cancer .
Health officials said the new case of coronavirus in California could be the first in the U.S. to have a known link to those who have traveled abroad. With the virus spreading to communities and 75,000 confirmed cases in China alone, the world is facing a turning point in its fight to contain the outbreak. The virus has spread from China to the United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but no cases have been reported in any of these countries.