A new coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, but officials are urging the public not to succumb to fear because most people are expected to recover.
This puts America's recovery rate below 1 percent, but Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, toldmultiple factors can skew the data. In the U.S., the virus spread rapidly through a nursing and rehabilitation facility and many of the deaths in Washington involved people who were considered high-risk because they were over the age of 60 or had underlying conditions.
To protect the entire population, especially those who are most vulnerable, officials urged the public to practice proper hand and respiratory hygiene, avoid areas where outbreaks are occurring and stay home if they're sick. The best way to reduce the risk of infection is to limit human-to-human interactions so some companies implemented work from home policies and large events, such as SXSW, have been canceled.
The White House's Coronavirus Task Force is leading America's response to the virus, and its members have sought to strike a balance between conveying the seriousness of the situation and inciting panic. They encouraged people who are at a higher risk of developing serious disease from the virus to rethink travel, especially cruises, where there have been large outbreaks, and practice social distancing.
Assisted recovery for most.
According to John Hopkins around 124900 people were infected. Which gives you a recovery around 53% 🤔
But the majority of Americans with an underlying medical condition like myself will die if we don't get it contained. People with autoimmune diseases and the elderly will most likely not survive. 😠
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