COVID-19

OUTBREA
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MUHAMMAD AZRAEI
 What are the symptoms?

SHORTNE
OTHER
FEVER COUGH SS OF
FLU
Where your A dry and BREATH
Difficulty
chest or beck continuous Sore throat,
aches, runny breathing or
feels hot cough.
nose chest pain
 Risk Factors and Severity

Current case fatality

People with COVID-19
rate ~2% among those
can have no symptoms
with laboratory-
or develop mild,
confirmed COVID-19
severe, or fatal illness

Kids may have less

severe disease (2% of
Risk factors for severe
confirmed cases in
illness may include:
China occurred among
those o Older age

0,2% o Underlying chronic

medical conditions
 How does the virus spread?

It takes approximately 2 to
Possibly spread through 14 days (median ~5 days)
stool with the virus in it for an infected person to
show symptoms

Possibly spread by
Primarily spreads person-
touching an object or
to-person via respiratory
surface with the virus on
droplets from coughs or
it, then touching mouth,
sneezes (like the flu)
nose, or eyes
 Treatment and Vaccine
Treatment Vaccines

• No specific treatment
currently available
• Supportive management
of complications,
including advanced • Phase 1 trials in people
organ support if may occur within 2
indicated months
• Anti-viral medications
under investigation
Community Mitigation Planning
Strategies
● Personal
I. Home isolation of ill people, hand hygiene,
II. resp. etiquette
III. Home quarantine of well, potentially exposed people
● Social distancing
I. School closures and dismissals
II. Social distancing in workplaces
III. Postponing or cancelling mass gatherings
● Environmental measures (e.g., routine cleaning of frequently touched surfaces)
GUIDANCE FOR SCHOOLS
Reduce risk at school
● You do not need to take special precautions
● Encourage students and staff to:
I. Stay home when sick
II. Perform frequent hand washing with soap & water (If not
available, use alcohol-based hand sanitizer)
III. Avoid touching eyes/nose/mouth with unwashed hands
IV. Cover coughs/sneezes with a tissue, then throw tissue in trash
and clean hands with soap/water (or hand sanitizer)
V. Provide adequate supplies for good hygiene
VI. Follow your routine cleaning and disinfection program
2 ACADEMIC TEXT
● https://
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/schools.html
● https://
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-guidance-management-patients.
html
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YOU