What is CoVid 19?

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How close is ’close’? What you need to know about COVID-19
https://news.usc.edu/166426/what-you-need-to-know-about-covid-19/

USC Student Health answers the most commonly asked questions about the novel coronavirus, and what you can do to minimize your risk of exposure.

The present picture on COVID-19 is that it spreads through respiratory droplets — a sneeze, cough or other tiny watery fluid that gets expelled from one person and ends up in the eyes, nose or mouth of another person (sometimes carried by the hands as a go-between).

For most people in the U.S., the immediate health risk from COVID-19 is considered low because they are unlikely to have had an exposure. Health care workers caring for patients are at higher risk because .... ---CONTINUED---

Coronavirus ‘is like a combination of SARS and AIDS’, doctors say
https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/06/coronavirus-like-combination-sars-aids-doctors-say-12359066/

Doctors in China have warned that coronavirus can cause ‘irreversible’ harm to patients’ lungs, even if they recover. The effects of Covid-19 on the human body ‘is like a combination of SARS and AIDS as it damages both the lungs and immune systems’, Peng Zhiyong told the Global Times. Dr Zhiyong, director of Zhongnan Hospital’s intensive care unit in outbreak epicentre Wuhan, made the comments after speaking to forensic specialist Liu Lang, whose team has reportedly carried out tests on nine patients who had died of the virus. ---CONTINUED---