This Is What You Need to Know About the Novel Coronavirus
This Is What You Need to Know About the Novel Coronavirus
It’s March 2020 and the world has been battling a new coronavirus outbreak for months. Here’s everything you need to know about COVID-19.
Since the first case of the novel coronavirus was reported in late 2019 in the city of Wuhan, China, the virus has made its way across the globe—resulting in economic decline, drastic quarantine measures, and thousands of deaths.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has now officially declared the outbreak a global pandemic, and has raised the global alert to the highest level possible.
Because of how little we know about COVD-19 and how quickly it’s spreading, this novel coronavirus is a cause for concern.
So, to find out more about COVD-19, we sat down with two medical professionals: Christine Tait-Burkard, PhD, an associate professor at the Roslin Institute of Edinburgh, and Mohsan Saeed, PhD, an investigator at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories.
For more information about coronaviruses (we’re talking COVID-19, SARS, and MERS), what you can (and should) do to stay healthy, and how well equipped we are to handle the virus as it continues to spread—check out this Elements.