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Essay Topic: Impact of Coronavirus
Please discuss the recent pandemic COVID-19, aka the coronavirus. First give intel on the whole pandemic, explaining the root of the virus and how it got its way into the US, based on the updated news. Then talk about the various factors of the pandemic including the effects of it nationwide, especially the United States. Then organize the concerns into categories of food, economy, politics, race, and inequality. Explain each topic under the current pandemic.
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Impact of corona virus
The novel corona virus COVID-19 emerged in city of Wuhan, China. Corona virus are a family of virus featured with cold, severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS) and middle east respiratory syndrome(MERS). The COVID-19 is found as SARS and is named after corona virus disease 2019.The first patient reported with corona virus is Wei Guixian, a female shrimp seller in Wuhan city in Dec 10, 2019 and is reffered as ' patient zero'.
Root of corona virus:
The patient zero experienced a cold and a sense of weakness when she was in Huanan market selling shrimp. She got quarantined as her symptoms matched to coronavirus.The analysis of virus seemed to be not a laboratory developed one but an evolutionary species. The controversies related to root of pandemic is contuining and many theories are being developed.One is that the virus jumped from a non human host to a human host.The non human host is assumed to be civets or camels as per the reported evidence but they cannot be the direct host. The virus have similar features to the SARS virus seen in bat. It might be transfered from bat to an intemediate host and then to human beings. The virus have might gone geneticaly adaptive to human host and became pathogenic. The cleavage site of virus became similar to the cleavage site of strains in bird flu. The evolution and corresponding adaptiveness made the virus more capable to enter and live in human host leading to a pandemic situation throughout the globe.
Corona virus got way to US:-
The virus spread to United State of America due to the travel of residents of multiple nations. After China reported the spreading of virus on Wuhan, about 1000 of them travelled from Wuhan itself to airports of Chicago, Sanfransisco, Losangels, Newyork etc. About 279 flights with 40000 travelers entered USA and interviews show the lack of control and security measures. President Donald Trump stated that " I do think we were very early, but I also think we were very smart because we stopped China" in February. But the reports states that the travel measures were taken late as it had already entered the nation. The experts suggests that the virus provided no symptoms to be detected till the first patient in US reported with disease and till now the time of entrance of virus is undetected. The Chinese officials deliberately understated the severity of the disease about half of January and they lacked the strict checking and controls at their airport. The lack of control of both nations resulted in the introduction of corona virus in US.
Effect of corona virus in US:-
About 164610 cases are reported in nation which is more than China. The economy is at the brim of breakdown. Newyork has been reported as the highest in infected states and states Newjersey, California, Mikhigan, Kentuki etc are arriving with same rate. But Seattle emerged as a relief with decline in cases due the strict rules paved them.Many industries experience a fall in their economy due to scenario. The aircraft manufacturer Boeing annunced a fall in sales in Q12020. Construction, medical and pharmaceutics, even tourism industry has got hit worse. The supplychain across world got disrupted due to the downfall of most played nation along with loss of jobs counting to 70100 in all sectors.
1) food:- a slowdown in industry will lead to food crisis and followed form lack of job and motion of people.The agricultural sector is hit badly due to the lack of transporatation, mobility, labour. The inability of access food will develop a society with poor nutrition and health.
2)Economy:-down fall worse than 1987 due to restriction in travel, work and trade
3)politics:- rolling of curreency got disrupted and nation curbing to get up. The government takes strict regultions along with services to provide to sustain life in nation.
4) race:- Found to be affected least. In this pandemic everyone is confined to saving lives and keeeping virus away, so the feeling of race is the least that could matter to them
5)inequality: food and supplies are provided to all in nations regardless of rich and poor as the virus doesnot select as wise. everyone is concerned of the lives and provide help to other. The concept of equality regardless of religion is being seen