Since the new coronavirus was first reported in China in late December, the world has learned a great deal about the disease it causes, COVID-19, that has killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
Gastrointestinal symptoms — including nausea, diarrhea and vomiting — may also occur but are less common. Younger people, however, are still susceptible to severe complications from COVID-19. A CDC report from March found that in a sampling of hospitalized patients, more than half were under 65, and 20 percent were in their 20s, 30s or early 40s.
The coronavirus is also being linked to a rare and potentially deadly inflammatory condition that can occur in children several weeks after they were infected with the virus. The condition, officially called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, has been reported in several states in the U.S.
How long does it take for someone to get sick?The coronavirus's incubation period — meaning the time it takes from a person being infected with the virus to when they start showing symptoms — appears to be anywhere from two to 14 days. Though, the average amount of time it takes a person to show symptoms is about five days, according to the World Health Organization.
Many researchers hypothesize that people will develop immunity to the virus, at least for some period of time, as was the case with two other coronaviruses, SARS and MERS. Evidence from one study using rhesus macaques — monkeys that share a majority of their genes with humans — have shown that after a coronavirus infection, the macaques developed antibodies that protected them from getting sick again.
How can I protect myself from the coronavirus?One of the simplest prevention measures a person can take is proper hand-washing. What else can I do besides washing my hands?Perhaps the best way to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is to keep sick people separated from healthy people. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told NPR"it's conceivable" that a vaccine will be ready to deploy by December 2020 or January 2021.
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