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KEY QUESTIONS:
1. If someone shows symptoms, can we say that they
are immediately infected by the virus?
coronavirus has made the jump from
animals to humans, and scientists are
drawing on past experience to
determine the best way
to handle the deadly, rapidly
spreading disease.
There's no specific treatment for
coronaviruses – a large family of
viruses that cause illness ranging
from the common cold to
pneumonia. With time, most people
will recover on their own, doctors say.
The best way to treat symptoms is
to take pain and fever medications,
use a room humidifier or take a hot
shower to help ease a sore throat and
cough, drink plenty of liquids, and
rest, the Center for Disease Control
(CDC) says. That typically
includes taking Tylenol, aspirin or
decongestant, said Jay Cook, Chief
Medical Officer at Providence Regional
Medical Center in Washington, which
received the first U.S. case of the
Wuhan virus.

2. What should one do if someone showed Treatment "is really supportive care,"
symptoms?

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However, should the virus cause
a secondary bacterial infection, What is this?
doctors would prescribe antibiotics,
Cook said. Sometimes a ventilator
may be necessary.
A vaccine, meanwhile, is still months
or possibly years away.
"There are no drugs that are currently
approved, so everything now is
experimental," said Michael Ison, an
infectious disease specialist at
Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
KEY QUESTIONS:
There are seven strains of
coronavirus that infect humans, 3. When is the use of the ventilator needed?
according to Greg Poland, director of 4. Why is the vaccine going to take months and
the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research years to create?
Group. Four are common colds, but
three have "pathological
significance": severe acute respiratory
syndrome (SARS), Middle East
respiratory syndrome (MERS) and,
now, the Wuhan coronavirus, formally
called the 2019 novel coronavirus.
"This is the third one now," Poland
said. "The previous two, SARS and
MERS, were controlled with individual
and population-level public health
measures. No vaccine. No anti-viral.
They were controlled with
handwashing, face masks, isolation,
Headaches are not pathological; they
are considered a “disorder”.
Disease vs Disorder

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 Health officials say the Wuhan virus is
low-risk and probably spreads through
tiny droplets when a person coughs or
sneezes. The likelihood of
contracting the coronavirus, and of
suffering a severe case, increases
among the elderly and people with
pre-existing conditions.
It's still early on, but Anthony Fauci,
director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Disease,
What do we call these? estimates that about 4% of people
who contract the Wuhan coronavirus
die from it. The mortality rate for
KEY QUESTIONS: SARS was closer to 9 or 10%, and, for
5. Why is the Wuhan virus not the worst of its
MERs, about 30 to 35%, he said.
kind? "In the absence of a vaccine or
6. What is the best thing that we can do for now treatment, the best way you contain
in this epidemic? outbreaks is to identify cases, isolate
them, and trace contacts," Fauci
said.

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 VOCABULARY LIST

1. Rapidly
2. Symptoms
3. Humidifier
4. To ease
5. Decongestant
6. To run its course
7. Secondary bacterial infection
8. Vaccine
9. Experimental
10. Strain
11. Pathological
12. Et cetera
13. Sexy
14. Likelihood
15. Pre-existing
16. Mortality rate
17. To contain
18. To trace

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