What is coronavirus-covid-19 pandemic simply? What are the symptoms of COVID-19 ? Why is mortality rate from coronavirus high in Italy and Spain?

A Brief History of Coronavirus simply

Despite the fact that we have heard newly about coronavirus nowadays, it is a well-known infectious disease in medical literature. Contrary to general belief that it seems in just human, Coronavirus is a virus that has been seen in animals abundantly so far.

At the end of December 2019, pneumonia cases began to seem in Wuhan, China. Firstly the cause of this sudden risen pneumonia could not be explained. Then after that, researches have revealed that these cases of pneumonia are due to a new type of coronavirus that has not been previously described.

This new form of coronavirus has been named COVID-19. We can understand why they call it COVID-19 if we look at details of the name;

CO - Corona ,

VI- Virus

D – Disease

19 – 2019.

What are the symptoms of COVID-19 Pandemic

Although old types of Coronavirus are not lethal normally, this new form of Coronavirus is very fatal for especially old people and the people who have some chronic disease and weak immune system. Despite the fact that COVID-19 is not fatal for young people because of their relatively powerful immune system, there are some young victims also from COVID-19.

Firstly high fever is seen in who has been caught to COVID-19. Next phase in this disease is dry cough. At the end of one week in COVID-19 shortage of breath emerges. If you feel or see these kind of symptoms you have to go a hospital immediately.

On other hand we have to be very careful in our daily life activities to prevent spreading COVID-19.  Even though we are not a COVID-19 patient, we can be carrier and thereby we could infect this lethal disease to our loved ones and cause their death even so. If we do not want to harm our loved ones without even realize, we should obey the rules which World Health Organization has declared like social distance rule. Please do not forget that we must stay at home except urgent necessities.

Why is mortality rate from coronavirus-covid-19 pandemic high in USA, Italy and Spain?

United States, Italy and Spain have been seen worst hit countries by COVID-19 so far. We have to go a little back if we want to understand why those 3 countries have been affected more than other countries by Coronavirus-COVID-19 pandemic.

First of all we should remember that Boris Johnson (infected COVID-19) and Donald Trump in first days of coronavirus outbreak said that the situation was exaggerated and there has been a lof of deaths from seasonal flu every year. So we could say easily that they did not take coronavirus-COVID-19 outbreak seriously at first. This was a huge and fatal mistake unfortunately.

Secondly USA, Italy and Spain has a high average age. We could say these 3 countries are most effected countries from COVID-19 pandemic due to fact that COVID-19 infected and harm old people easily and cause them to death( unfortunately because of their poor immune system generally).

To sum up, their approach at first had very fatal consequences for their people. If they had taken it more seriously first day of coronavirus pandemic, more life could have been saved.  Of course their old population is another factor which has affected their mortality rates.

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What is an epidemic? What are the differences between epidemic and pandemic?

 Today in “Read English Essays”, we are analyising outbreak, epidemic, pandemic and COVID-19 topics.

As you might already know everyone is talking about Coronavirus or COVID-19 nowadays. As a natural result of that people all around the world wonder what an outbreak is or what differences are between epidemic and pandemic.

According to World Health Organization, an outbreak is the existence/presence of cases in excess of what could normally be anticipated in a defined geographical area, community or season.

After defining briefly what an outbreak is we can focus on epidemic, pandemic and differences between them. First of all we have to say that epidemic and pandemic are different types of outbreak.

As a term of epidemic is used for defining a very quick spreading of a disease. Epidemic is caused very unusual increasing of disease in a very short time. During the disease time this outbreak could occur in a community, geographical area or several countries(not all countries or all around the world like pandemic!)

On the other hand a pandemic is a kind of an epidemic which effects all country or the entire world.  So as a definition pandemic is related geographical zone. While an epidemic describes fast and effective spreading a disease, a pandemic describes its geographical spreading speed.

A pandemic is more dangerous than an epidemic.

Because when we are talking about a pandemic(like COVID-19) we should know that;

- It is more lethal,

- It is more wide-spread,

- Affects and infects more people and more countries or all around the world.

If we put them in order of danger;

Outbreak  --)  Epidemic --)  Pandemic (Coronavirus - Covid-19)

This is an end to our essay today. We don’t want you to feel bored while you are reading it. (there are a lot of long and boring essays on the internet of course!). We will talk about Coronavirus and Covid-19 in another essay.