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What is Corona Virus Disease? A new virus called the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified as the cause of a disease outbreak that began in China in 2019. The disease is called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Cases of COVID-19 have been reported in a growing number of countries, including the U.S. WHO declared a global pandemic in March 2020. Public health groups, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are monitoring the situation and posting updates, treatment and prevention recommendations on their websites. How to Protect Yourself From Coronavirus? The World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus a pandemic, and the number of cases continues to rise worldwide. Here 3MEDS listed five basic steps can help you reduce your risk of getting sick or infecting others. 1. Stay home: Corona Virus is a disease that has been spread in 185...

Even in less challenging times, many of us try to avoid close contact with someone who is sneezing, coughing, or running a fever to avoid getting sick ourselves. Our attention to such issues has now been dramatically heightened by the emergence of a novel coronavirus causing a pandemic of an illness known as COVID-19 . Many have wondered if we couldn’t simply protect ourselves by avoiding people with symptoms of respiratory illness. Unfortunately, the answer is no. A new study shows that simply avoiding symptomatic people will not go far enough to curb the COVID-19 pandemic . That’s because researchers have discovered that many individuals can carry the novel coronavirus without showing any of the typical symptoms of COVID-19 : fever, dry cough, and shortness of breath . But these asymptomatic or only mildly ill individuals can still shed virus and infect others. Social distancing puts space between people. If someone is sick and there are no people around, the vi...