COVID-19, or BETA coronavirus, is a virus from the same family as SARS and MERCO viruses. This virus, which is normally seen in animals, has mutated and passed to humans and has become transmissible from person to person.
Since the virus is a large virus. Its suspension time in the air is short and it collapses 1 meter downwards
Since it is more contagious than the influenza virus (on average, it infects 1 to 3 patients), the epidemic it causes occurs faster.
With touch and droplet infection. This virus, which we can get from our entryways such as mouth, nose and eyes, has an incubation phase of 2-14 days. At the end of this phase, it causes fever, cough, shortness of breath, malaise, headache, nausea and vomiting, and in later cases, it can cause sepsis, lung infection and respiratory failure.
In order to make a diagnosis, it is necessary to detect the virus with the PCR method. Due to this test, which is not performed everywhere and takes time to be completed, diagnosis is delayed, and the rapid test taken from nasal secretions has not become widespread yet.
Since there is no specific drug in its treatment, flu treatment is given to relieve complaints.
About 80% of patients only survive the flu-like illness, 20% have hospitalization, 5% intensive care treatment, and 2% death rate.
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Death is 0.4% between the ages of 30-39
6% over the age of 65
20% over the age of 80 (usually due to shortness of breath, pneumonia, respiratory failure and sespsies). Death occurs due to multiple organ failure)
The risk of death is very low in children under the age of 9, because their immune systems are not mature enough, the risk of sepsis against microbes is less common than in adults, and they do not go into multiple organ failure.
General protection methods include not entering crowded environments, disinfecting hands (such as hand sanitizer, 70% alcohol, cologne), isolating at home for suspected contact and patients, using a mask, collecting wipes and infected waste in special garbage and washing hands frequently, cleaning the contact areas with disinfectants.
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