COVID-19 Blog - Sayer Charnquist

COVID-19 is one of the major threats of this year and has caused nearly global panic as a mass quarantine has been issued in most major countries. It started out in the Wuhan District of China, and quickly spread across the entire area, though it took almost 2 months for the world to be at risk, with WHO finally raising the threat level to 'very high' in late February, almost one and a half months after it's initial discovery. Over the course of March, the disease would get progressively worse, with the US and Italy being some of the main countries hit outside of China. Both of these countries have responded by issuing a mass quarantine.

The countries at the highest risk are those that can't afford for their population to go into quarantine. Those countries that are just barely on the edge of a stable economy. Even worse, these countries are also weak to the virus due to their still-developing healthcare infrastructure. Even so, there are likely to be more risk factors as immuno-compromising diseases spreading around. As of now though, richer countries are focused on quelling their own pandemics, with the two countries with the most cases being the US and China. Overall there have been 169,387 COVID-19 infections and 6,513 deaths across the world.

A lot of countries have been totally sealed off, with the exception of Brazil and a few others who have decided just to man through it. Despite this clearly bad decision, they have the economy to hold an outbreak without complete paralysis of the healthcare system. The Ebola virus was eradicated from the rest of the world, but still ravages certain portions of Africa. If we let it get out of check, the Coronavirus could suffer a similar if not identical fate.

Comments

Connor Morley said…
I like where you leave this article. I'm interested in, and to be honest a little shocked by, the theories that are stating that the coronavirus could eventually become as common and as recurrent in global society as the common cold is today.
March 27, 2020 at 9:59 PM
Unknown said…
When you discussed the 1st world countries that are currently struggling with this pandemic, like the US, I have one question regarding that; Did you ever think that our country would ever be in our current situation when this was declared a 'pandemic'(as in general)? Something else that I want to reference is that the US seemingly did not get any early 'stay home' declarations until this got out of control in most major cities. My theory is that people have failed to social distance in general, and as you can see in some news articles, there are some college students that would rather go on vacation and get COVID-19 than stay home and quarantine.
March 29, 2020 at 1:29 PM
Unknown said…
This is John BTW ^^
idk why this is being posted as anonymous...
March 29, 2020 at 1:30 PM
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