COVID-19 Findings and Global Health: Nursing Med Surj 2 Report

This report, prepared for a Nursing Med Surj 2 assignment, focuses on key findings related to the coronavirus (COVID-19). It outlines five relevant facts, including the virus's classification as a large family of respiratory viruses (Coronaviridae), the identification of MERS and SARS as related infections, and the structure of the Coronaviridae family, including the Coronavirus and Toro virus genera. The report also details the global impact of COVID-19, citing statistics on confirmed cases, deaths, and affected countries as of March 2020, along with the virus's transmission methods and the importance of proper hygiene. Furthermore, it discusses the disease's impact on New York City, including the implementation of emergency measures. The report also mentions the development of testing protocols and potential treatments, including mRNA-based vaccines and synthetic biology approaches to vaccine development, supported by references to relevant research papers and reports.

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Five relevant facts about coronavirus:
1. Coronaviruses also known as Coronaviridae , is a large family of viruses that
induces respiratory diseases. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) are two commonly occurred infections where
causative agent is corona virus. The Coronaviridae are considered as a group of
enveloped virus that comprises positive-strand with approximately non segmented
genomes of around 30,000 nucleotides (Kooijman et al., 2017). The family of
Coronaviridae includes two genera of viruses such as Coronavirus and Toro virus,
that share similarities in the organization of viral structural and expression of their
genomes and the structure of the viral gene products. The most recently discovered
coronavirus causes coronavirus disease COVID-19.
2. The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 115 countries and territories around the world
and 1 international conveyance (Lee, Kim & Myoung, 2019). first outbreak of virus
observed china where COVID-19 infected more than 20 states of china with 80904
reported cases. A total number of 3123 total death encountered as per the data of 9th
march 2020 (Coronavirus, 2020). A three new countries such as Bangladesh, Albania
and Paraguay have reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The sudden
outbreaks in other territories include Eastern Mediterranean Region, South -East Asia
Region, Region of the Americas, African Region and European Region where
majority of the cases confirmed due to local transmission and few of them due to
visitors (Coronavirus, 2020).
3. Majority of the individuals recover from the disease without seeking any exceptional
management. About 1 out of every 6 people infected with COVID-19 strain becomes
seriously ill and exhibit difficulty breathing (Coronavirus, 2020). Considering the
corona virus cases in the New York City, more than 200 cases were confirmed where

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48 confirmed cases of the virus, with 12 new cases announced on Wednesday. It
induced a set of emergencies where school and graduate students program were shut
down for reducing transmission. Children and patients under immune suppressant are
more likely to develop serious illness. Considering the world wide statistics, a total of
64,647 cases recovered from the infection.
4. . The disease can have transmitted through infected person where small droplets from
the nose or mouth of a person with COVID-19 spread to another person. Other people
then catch COVID-19 by touching these objects or surfaces, then touching their eyes,
nose or mouth (Coronavirus, 2020). The CDC also initially limited access to
diagnosis to a narrow group of individuals with known exposure. However, later RT-
PCR test protocol was developed for assessment of the corona virus. CDC suggested
that laboratory testing for sample of saliva a nasal swab as well as a throat swab can
confirm the presence of virus in infected individuals ( Coronavirus disease (COVID-
19), 2020).
5. . The properly cooked meal is recommended to eat and individuals are recommended
to seek clinical assistance while experiencing runny nose. SL have shipped more than
584,000 surgical masks, 47,000 N95 masks, 620,000 gloves, 72,000 gowns and
11,000 goggles to 57 countries `( Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), 2020). While
vaccination for the corona virus is in the clinical trial, mRNA based vaccination is
proposed to combat the disease. However, due to adverse impact the proposal
refused. Synthetic biologist a computational protein-design algorithm through
determine that, for instance, a nanoparticle 25 nanometres across and adjuvant might
combined to induce immune response (Begley, 2020).

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References:
Lee, J. Y., Kim, S. J., & Myoung, J. (2019). Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
Coronavirus-Encoded ORF8b Inhibits RIG-I-Like Receptors by a Differential
Mechanism. Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 29(12), 2014-2021.
Kucharski, A. J., Russell, T. W., Diamond, C., Liu, Y., Edmunds, J., Funk, S., ... & CMMID
nCoV working group. (2020). Early dynamics of transmission and control of
COVID-19: a mathematical modelling study. medRxiv.
Begley, S, (2020). To develop a coronavirus vaccine, synthetic biologists try to outdo nature.
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