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Covid-19 and the reasons for its spread
05/26/2020
Coronavirus disease is a world pandemic that was first discovered in Wuhan City in china (Khot, 2020). This disease spread fast across the world; today, more than five million people are confirmed to be infected across the world; over two million people have recovered from this infection, and more than 350,000 have died of this disease. Coronavirus disease is spreading fast across cause global health issues. Countries across the world are placing measures to curb the spread of this disease, including placing country into a lockdown, movement restrictions inside and outside the country, and creating quarantine facilitate for the suspected case. However, despite this measure, coronavirus is spreading fast. The main reason increasing spread of coronavirus disease include the nature of the viruses, human behavioral factors, medical uncertainty, unfamiliarity, leadership failure, and expert gaffes.
Doctors across are in the race to develop treatment of the rapid spreading COVID-19; hundreds of drugs are being tested around the world. Research indicates that 20% of the infected people are showing acute illness, and 1% might die, thus making this operation an urgent mission. However, the operation is affected by the nature of the virus; coronavirus disease 2019 has been discovered to be ten times more lethal as compared to the seasonal flu, thus making it more dangerous (Irfan, 2020). Coronavirus disease 2019, is a tiny virus causing a great threat to humanity; even with modern medicines, it's becoming hard to control. Right now, doctors are using the general treatment method to control the symptoms of the Covid-19 since there no specific vaccine or cure.
Various factors make the SARS-CoV-2 threat to humans; the nature of these viruses is making for experts to develop the vaccine. Viruses are the most inexplicable germs; viruses assume different shapes, and with just a small set of spreads, they can wreak havoc in the entire ecosystem. Viruses can travel between hosts through the water, air, soil, and droplet. Viruses mutate rapidly, and thus, tailored vaccines and treatments against them can lose effectiveness over time. The other key factor that is complicating the control of the coronavirus disease in 2019 is how the human body responds to viruses (Peeri, 2020). Once the human body detects a virus, it produces antibodies; the antibodies are proteins that attach to the virus or virus-infected cell to destroy it or prevents infecting new people. Viruses are able to adapt to the countermeasure of the antibodies; hence, they continue to affect our human system.
The other challenge of coronavirus disease is that it can cause damage and infect other people before the symptoms are seen. Coronavirus can stay in the human body on average of 5-6 days; however, it can be up to 14 days (Kampf, 2020). Thus, during this time, one can infect other people with his or her consent, thus making it to spread fast. Further, by the time the virus diseases are identified, it usually to late to act. Most of the symptoms of the virus diseases are usually the response of the immune response to the disease, hence making it hard for the healthcare providers to determine if someone has a virus infection. Also, some people are asymptomatic to coronavirus disease, and thus, this part of the society is accelerating the spread of coronavirus disease since they don't show symptoms, thus making them hard to be noticed.
People are social beings; this behavioral factor is making it hard to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease in 2019. COVID-19 spreads through respiratory droplets of the infected people; when people are together, it becomes easy to contract this disease. Since people meet and relate, it is becoming hard to curb this spread (Pakpour, 2020). In the initial stage of the disease, a very high number of people, especially in Italy, China, the USA, and Spain, were infected while in social places such as entertainment facilities, worship places, and transport systems. Thus, in response to this virus, the government banned public places. However, it is becoming hard to keep them apart.
The other reason that is making it hard to control is its unfamiliarity. Coronavirus disease 2019 comes from anywhere – unfamiliarity combines uncertainty is complicating the control of the disease. This unfamiliarity of this disease is making it different from other viral diseases such as flu polio and even HIV in that healthcare providers can predict them in terms of seasonality and trends.
Leadership failure is another key factor that is taking control of coronavirus disease 2019 complicated. Some elected leaders in the various countries are giving directions statement that is compromising the fight against coronavirus disease in 2019. For instance, in the USA, Vice President Mike Pence promised the country that almost 1.5 million people would be tested in few days; medical reports indicated that the country had no capacity of testing such being number (Begley, 2020). Further, President Trump, on February 2, assurance on Fox News that the country to shut supply of the testing tool from China, this is raising issues on the way forward.
Also, some African leaders still hold that this disease can be healthy by traditional and herbal medicines. For instance, The President of Madagascar Andry Nirina Rajoelina has been on the news for recommending medicine for coronavirus disease 2019. In addition, the Tanzanian President John Pombe has been on Spot for failing to provide measure in his country to curb the spread of the COVID-19. Thus, this is increasing the spread of the virus, not only in the country but to its neighbors such as Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda, which has taken measures to curb the spread.
References
Begley, S. (2020). Seven reasons why it's hard to control your coronavirus anxiety: Stat News. Retrieved by May 25, 2020, from https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/12/why-coronavirus-anxiety-hard-to-control/
Irfan, U. (2020). Why the new coronavirus is so hard to cure. Retrieved by May 25, 2020, from https://www.vox.com/2020/3/11/21163262/is-there-a-cure-for-coronavirus
Kampf, G., Todt, D., Pfaender, S., & Steinmann, E. (2020). Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and its inactivation with biocidal agents. Journal of Hospital Infection.
Khot, W. Y., & Nadkar, M. Y. (2020). The 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak-A global threat. J Assoc Physicians India, 68(3), 67.
Pakpour, A. H., & Griffiths, M. D. (2020). The fear of COVID-19 and its role in preventive behaviors. Journal of Concurrent Disorders.
