This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow)—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIH
From The Guardian
Reassuring Highlights
- “We can test for it.”
- “Catching it is not that easy (if we are careful) and we can kill it quite easily (provided we try).”
- “In most cases, symptoms are mild, and young people are at very low risk. According to a study of 45,000 confirmed infections in China, 81% of cases caused only minor illness, 14% of patients had symptoms described as “severe”, and just 5% were considered “critical”, with about half of those resulting in death.
- “People are recovering from it. As the daily count maintained by the Johns HopkinsCSSE shows, thousands of people around the world are making confirmed recoveries from the coronavirus every day.”
