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2019-NCOV

shortness of breath. The CDC or the
B Y M A T T H E W L . G R 4
Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
(They didn’t add the P) believe that the
Since December 2019 people have been
symptoms of the 2019-nCov will oc cur as
worrying that they would acquire the
soon as 2 days or as late as 14 days after
infamous 2019-nCoV or the new
exposure of this virus. These symptom s
coronavirus. Bats have been known for
can lead to severe illness or death.
passing viruses to humans, and it wou ld
You can prevent spreading and
soon spread throughout the world. In the
obtaining the virus by: avoiding clos e
past we have experienced different
contact with people that are sick,
coronavirus called SARS, which stands for
avoiding touching you mouth, nos e, and
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. SARS
eyes, staying home when you are sick,
started in 2003 when it jumped from a bat
covering your nose when you sneeze or
to a human.
mouth with a tissue when you cough
SARS’s effects are like the effects of the
then throwing your tissue away in the
2019-nCoV, but SARS started to disappear
garbage, washing your ands frequently
eight months after it took the first life from
and wearing a facemask in the public.
a human. The new coronavirus is also very
contagious like SARS and is thought to

spread when a person is within 6 feet of an

infected person. Via respiratory droplets
must be produced and spread if som eon e

infected is infecting others near the

contaminate. It is thought that if you tou ch
a surface that has the virus on it then tou ch

you mouth, nose or possibly your eyes you
will be infected, but this is only a claim.

Another belief is that when the infected is

the sickest it is most easy to infect ot hers. If
you have been infected you will receive the

following symptoms: cough, fever, and

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