What is the Corona Virus?
The corona virus is a disease that is a respiratory illness. The common symptoms of this virus are the same as the flu such as coughing, fever, and difficulty breathing. This virus is mainly spread through contact such as sneezing, coughing, and coming in contact with an infected person. It can also be spread by you touching an infected item/person and then you spread it to your mouth and your face which will make you infected with the virus. Though this disease has been spread worldwide the place where the virus had originated from is Wuhan, China and since people that are either from Wuhan or visited Wuhan traveled that is how the disease spread so rapidly.
Is it a Pandemic?
A pandemic is when there is a global outbreak of a disease. Pandemics happen when there is a new virus and we haven't found any way to "cure" it and the virus ends up spreading worldwide. Anatomy is the science that deals with the body structures of humans, plants ,animals, and other living organisms. The anatomy of the corona virus is spherical or pleomorphic enveloped particles containing single-stranded (positive-sense) RNA associated with a nucleoprotein within a capsid comprised of matrix protein. The envelope bears club-shaped glycoprotein projections . Viruses are named according to their phenotypic characteristics, such as morphology, nucleic acid type, mode of replication, host organisms, and the type of disease they cause. The name for the coronavirus is COVID-19 and that stands for (co)rona(vi)rus (d)isease 2019.
The impact
I feel that the coronavirus is terrible because there are thousands of people each day dying. This has affected my life in negative ways because now my family has to wait in long lines to get food and I can't leave my house without being scared because i might get the virus. This virus has also brought back racism because people are discriminating against asians and claim that they are the reason for the coronavirus and that they should take full responsibility. Then this virus has caused the people around the world panic buy and cause all the store to become empty and not leave anything for other people to buy. Not to mention that hand sanitizers and masks are sold out everywhere you go and there are people that are selling these items at ridiculous prices just to make money.
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