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A Clinical Challenge and Investigating the Biology of COVID-19 What does the acronym COVID-19 stand for?  What do the letters and number 19 mean? Like other viruses, the coronavirus depends on host cells for replication.  Besides humans, what other hosts does the virus use? Since coronavirus is a positive-sense RNA virus, what role does reverse transcriptase play in this retrovirus? What is the make-up of the outside coat of coronavirus and give specific names of the molecules that extend out on its surface. Coronavirus primarily affects what type of cells?  Certain human cells display the receptor proteins that match the coronavirus outside coat.  What are these receptors? What is the incubation period for the coronavirus in humans before its deadly affect takes over?  Are some humans asymptomatic?  What does this mean? Describe the stages of coronavirus including major signs and symptoms that commonly occur. Formation of antibodies in the infected person with coronavirus usually occurs within one week after recovery from the virus for some individuals.  What has the CDC done with these individual’s plasma that carries the antibodies? We treat bacteria with antibiotics but there is no treatment for a virus infection.  What are some of the ways some doctors are using to halt the multiplication of this virus?  Is it ethical to treat a patient with these drugs that were established to work on for example Malaria? How long will it take to produce a vaccine against corona and why will it take that long to get it? List the groups of people including ethnicity and gender that have been most infected in the United States and speculate why? It is now known that the coronavirus destroys Red Blood Cells.  What is the impact that this virus has on the depletion of Red Blood Cells in an individual that contracted the virus? How is the heart responding to this virus infection?   How does the coronavirus affect the respiratory system (lungs primarily)?  Be specific in this answer by explaining the amount of alveoli depletion. Explain how the balance of fluids in the interstitial space is affected by the coronavirus. List several ways of avoiding contracting the coronavirus.  What is the reasoning behind this?  Do you think it is affective? Why do we have to wash our hands often and for at least 20 seconds?  Hint:  the outside surface of the virus has not only proteins markers but lipids as well. After recovering from coronavirus, what are the long-term affects after contracting COVID-19? Because this is technically a virus/disease, do you believe that survivors of the virus infection should follow an autoimmune protocol to lessen the severity of the long term symptoms that these individuals exhibit (lung scaring, arthritis, GERD, etc.). Do scientists and medical professionals believe that COVID-19 survivors are more susceptible to other autoimmune diseases such as Diabetes, Lupus, Hashimoto’s, AIDS, etc. Note:  This last question involves your personal beliefs about this virus/disease.   In two pages, please describe how this virus was released into the public.  Do you have ideas as to whether this virus was genetically modified to target a specific demographic population throughout the world?  Who was the “Patient O”?  Don’t be afraid to include the conspiracy theory on the release of this virus. Make sure you site your references in MLA format.  Use Times New Roman, 12 point font, and double spaced.

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