COVID-19: Transmission, Symptoms, and Global Impact on Urban Youth
Overview
This fact sheet provides an overview of COVID-19 as an emerging respiratory disease originating in Wuhan, China in December 2019. It addresses urban youth audiences by explaining disease transmission through respiratory droplets, symptoms and vulnerable populations, and the global economic and social disruptions caused by the pandemic.
What this coursework covers
- Origins and WHO declaration of COVID-19 as a public health emergency
- Global disruptions including suspension of sports, travel, business, and education
- Transmission methods, symptoms, asymptomatic cases, and vulnerable populations
- Current lack of cure or vaccine with prevention through hygiene practices
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Fact Sheet
SUBJECT: COVID – 19
AUDIENCE: Urban youths
COVID – 19 is an emerging contagious respiratory system disease caused by a coronavirus. It originated in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. World Health Organization, WHO, received the first case report from authorities in China and soon launched an investigation into it early January 2020 (Guo et al. 2). WHO declared a public health emergency on January 30, 2020, after the disease was confirmed. The virus is thought to originate from an animal.
The coronavirus has caused a global disruption in the economy as well as social norms. Almost all sporting activities have stopped. The vast European, Spanish, Italian, and German Bundesliga all got suspended though Bundesliga has resumed with strict contentment measures. International and local air travel got suspended. Other business activities, cultural and political events, were suspended too to minimize the spread of the contagious disease (Fernandes, 2020). Learning in universities and colleges is still at a standstill, with more than 90 percent of students getting affected.
The virus is contracted through close contact with infected persons always through droplets that get suspended in the air after an infected person coughs or sneezes. Once infected, it takes up to fourteen days for signs symptoms to display. Symptoms include difficulty in breathing, fatigue, loss of smell sense, among others. Some patients, however, are asymptomatic, meaning they do not display the signs and symptoms.