Coronavirus pandemic: All information on Sars-CoV-2 and Covid-19 | Miscellaneous

• The Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus, practically unknown at the beginning of the year, triggered a worldwide pandemic
• Sars-CoV-2 has triggered the potentially fatal lung disease Covid-19 in hundreds of thousands of people around the world
• So far tens of thousands of people have died of Covid-19, and hundreds of thousands more are expected to die
• There is an absolute state of emergency in numerous countries, health systems are at risk of collapse
• Here we answer the most important questions about the pathogen, the symptoms and course of the disease and changes in our everyday life in the corona crisis

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Has within a few weeks the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus life changed all over the world. The virus that is the potentially deadly Lung disease Covid-19 triggered, initially spread from December 2019 in Wuhan, China – in March 2020, there were already infected people and deaths on all continents. The World Health Organization WHO has been talking about one since March 12 pandemic.

The pathogen also spread rapidly in Europe and the USA, pushing many health systems to their capacity limits. Many governments responded with extensive Restrictions on public lifeto slow the spread of the virus. Many of the measures were and are unprecedented.

In Germany, the virus initially claimed comparatively few fatalities. After five weeks of shutdown, experts and politicians are now advising to what extent the restrictive Corona rules relaxed again can be.

We provide you with an overview of the most important questions and answers about the corona pandemic:

Coronavirus, Sars-CoV-2, Covid-19 – What does this mean?

“Coronavirus” means a certain type of virus for the virus family Coronaviridae. You got your name because of your appearance: Corona in Latin means “wreath” or “crown”, which refers to the many protruding structures (“spikes”) on the outer shell of the virus.

Sars-CoV-2 is the name of the special virus from the coronavirus family that has now spread pandemically all over the world. It triggers Covid-19 lung disease.

What corona symptoms are there? What does an easy course look like?

Covid-19 has no typical course. If the course is mild, the infected can remain virtually symptom-free, but if the course is severe, the lungs and heart are severely attacked.

When most common symptoms apply fever and dry cough. Some infected people also reported the following less common symptoms such as sore throat, runny nose, shortness of breath, body aches, headaches, diarrhea and / or vomiting, as well as taste and / or odorlessness.

Who is part of the Corona risk group? How do children react?

Basically, older and pre-ill people are more at risk of developing a serious illness than healthy, young people. However, in individual cases, severe courses were also observed in patients who are not in the risk group.

In children, Covid-19 is mild in most cases, but even in this group there have been severe courses and deaths.

Why does everyone always talk about the curve?

With the “curve” is that Development of coronavirus case numbers meant as it is shown in a diagram. The curve goes steeply for unchecked outbreaks because many people become infected in a short time. The more people become infected in a short period of time, the faster a health system in which these people have to be cared for will reach its capacity limits.

So if people in the era of the coronavirus pandemic stick to the principle “Flatten the curve” refer to the “flattening of the curve” means that containment measures such as bans on contact and restrictions on freedom of movement should lead to a less rapid spread of the pathogen in order to make the case number curve flatter.

To stay in the picture of the diagram: The course of an epidemic with a flat curve takes longer because the number of infections required for the immunity of a society is reached more slowly, but fewer people need medical care in a short period of time.