By Taewoo Kim
On 31st December 2019, the WHO China Country Office officially confirmed the case of pneumonia unknown aetiology found in Wuhan City. Until 3rd January 2020, 44 cases were reported to the WHO. Until this, the causal agent was not identified. Starting from the 3rd week of January 2020, neighboring countries like South Korea and Japan began to report the first case of coronavirus. From then on, Corona virus spread so rapidly that it was declared as a pandemic on March, 11th 2020. The media and WHO named the pandemic as COVID 19, indicating that it is a different kind of and unique corona virus that started in 2019.
Despite the fear this pandemic has created, it seems that we do not know much about corona virus. First of all, how does it look and work? As the picture above shows, the virus has protein spikes attached to a protein of cells (ACE2). Usually, protein helps to control blood pressure; however, when the coronavirus attaches to it, some chemical changes break our cells. Afterwards, the virus goes to several steps and copies of the virus. Health professionals and researchers say that a single corona virus cell can produce tens of thousands of new virions (can infect healthy cells) in an hour.
Usually, when our body fights with an infectious disease, our body tends to raise its temperature to kill the virus. Then, the white blood cells find the virus, and they ingest or destroy the contagious cells. COVID19 is similar to flu or cold, but it differs in that COVID 19 only infects the upper respiratory systems. The researchers say that people who never had a problem of respiratory illness may have light symptoms, but even young and healthy people may suffer from extreme symptoms.
Until now, no vaccination or one clear treatment for COVID 19 has been developed. Ironically, the only surest way to lower the risk of getting the coronavirus at this moment is the most classical method: wearing masks as Dr. David Prince from the Weill Cornell Medical Center says โthe most important thing is to wear the mask and not contact people that you donโt know over 30 minutes.โ The hand sanitizer is also essential while we are touching public facilities. It is truly a time of crisis and we should do every best to protest ourselves by wearing masks as well as cleaning our hands with sanitizers and soaps.
์ฝ๋ก๋ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฌ์ค๋ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฒผ์๊น?
๊นํ์ฐ(์๋ช /์ํ๋ถ ๊ธฐ์)
2019๋ 12์ 31์ผ. WHO ์ค๊ตญ์ง๋ถ๋ ์ค๊ตญ ์ฐํ์์ ํ์ฌ๊น์ง ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ๋ ์ ์ด ์๋ ์๋ก์ด ํํ์ ํ๋ ด์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋๋ถํฐ 3์ฃผ ํ ์ ๋์ธ 2020๋ 1์ ์ ์งธ ์ฃผ, ์ค๊ตญ์์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ํ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ผ๋ณธ ๋ฑ์์๋ ์ด์ ๋น์ทํ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฌ์ค ์ฆ์์ด ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ๋์๊ณ , ์ฝ๋ก๋ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฌ์ค๋ผ๊ณ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ถ๋ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฝ๋ก๋ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฌ์ค๋ ๊ธ์๋๋ก ์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ํผ์ง๊ธฐ ์์ํด์ 2020๋ 3์ 11์ผ, WHO๋ ์ฝ๋ก๋ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฌ์ค๋ฅผ ์ธ๊ณ์ ๋์ ํ ์ง๋ณ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐํํ๊ณ , ์ด ์ฝ๋ก๋ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฌ์ค๋ฅผ WHO์ ์ธ๋ก ๋ค์ 2019๋ ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ๋ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฌ์ค์์ ์๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ํด COVID 19์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ ์ต๋๋ค.
์ด ์ง๋ณ์ด ์ธ๊ณ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ธ์จ ๊ณตํฌ์ ๋นํด์, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฝ๋ก๋ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฌ์ค์ ๋ํด ์ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๋จผ์ , ๋๋์ฒด ์ฝ๋ก๋๋ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฒผ์๊น์? ์์ ์ฌ์ง์์ ๋ณด๋ฏ, ์ฝ๋ก๋ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฌ์ค๋ ์๊ด์ฒ๋ผ ๋พฐ์กฑ ๋พฐ์กฑํ ๋ชจ์์ ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ๋ฉ์ด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์๋ฉ ๋ถ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ณดํต ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง์ ํ์์ ์กฐ์ ํด ์ฃผ๋ ์ญํ ์ ํ๋๋ฐ, ์ฝ๋ก๋ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฌ์ค์ ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ๋ฉ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ชธ์ ๋ค์ด์์ ๋ฑ ๋ฌ๋ผ๋ถ์ผ๋ฉด ์ฌ๋์ ์ธํฌ๋ฅผ ํ๊ดดํ๊ธฐ ์์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋๊ตฌ๋, ๋ชธ์์์ ๋จ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์น๋ฉด์ ์์ฒญ๋๊ฒ ๋ง์ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฌ์ค๋ค์ ๋ ์์ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์๋ฃ์ง๊ณผ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์ง๋ค์ ํ๋์ ์ฝ๋ก๋ ์ธํฌ๊ฐ ํ์๊ฐ๋ด์ ์๋ง๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฌ์ค ์ธํฌ๋ค์ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋ผ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค.
์๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชธ์ ๋ณ์ ์ผ์ผํค๋ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฌ์ค๊ฐ ๋ค์ด์ค๋ฉด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชธ์ ๋ฐฑํ๊ตฌ๋ค์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ํ๊ดดํ์ ์์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฝ๋ก๋19๋ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ด์ง๋ง, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชธ ์ค ํนํ ํธํก๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ๊ด๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ผ์ํจ๋ค๋ ์ ์์ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ์ ๋ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋ค๋ฆ ๋๋ค. ์๋ฃ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ค์ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ํธํก๊ธฐ ๋ณ์ผ๋ก ์ํ ๋ ์ ์ด ์๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ฝ๋ก๋19์ ๊ฑธ๋ ค๋ ๊ฐ๋ฒผ์ด ์ฆ์๋ง ๊ฒช๊ณ ๋ง ์๋ ์๋ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค๋ง, ์ ๊ณ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ ์ฝ๋ก๋ 19์ ๊ฑธ๋ ค์ ์ฌํ ์ฆ์์ ๊ฒช๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์์ฌํ ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
ํ์ฌ๊น์ง ์ฝ๋ก๋ 19๋ฅผ ์๋ฐฉํ๋ ๋ฐฑ์ ๋, ํ์คํ ์น๋ฃ์ฝ๋ ๊ฐ๋ฐ๋์ง ๋ชปํ ์ํ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฐ ์ํฉ์์ ์ฝ๋ก๋์ ์ธ์ฐ๋ ์ ์ผํ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋ง์คํฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฝ๋ฌ๋ํ ์ํ์ผํฐ ๋ฐ์ด๋น ํ๋ฆฐ์ค ๋ฐ์ฌ๋ โ๋ง์คํฌ๋ฅผ ํญ์ ์ฐ๊ณ , ์ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋ ์ฌ๋๊ณผ 30๋ถ์ด์ ์ ์ดํ์ง ์๋ ๊ฒ๋ง์ด ์ฝ๋ก๋ ์๋ฐฉ๋ฒโ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ง๊ธ ์ ๋ง ์๊ธฐ์ ์๋์ ์ด๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ด ๋์ผ์๋ก ๋ง์คํฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ณ ์์ ์๋ ์ /๋น๋๋ก ๊นจ๋ํ๊ฒ ํด์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์์ ์ ๋ณดํธํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
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