Topic: Convid19 Pandemic
Introduction
Good health is one of the essential things every individual and every nation desires.Convid19 being one of the worst pandemics recorded in the 20th century, has hit most parts of the world, thousands of people have died of the virus and a million-plus having contracted the virus. The impact of the illness has been felt all around with people locked down, schools shut down, businesses being closed, and medical facilities being overwhelmed. This article will focus on convid19 pandemic how it emerged and all the information regarding the disease in Texas
What Convid19 disease is
Convid19 is a respiratory disease caused by a virus that spreads from one person to another. This virus spreads when a person comes into contact with a person infected by the convid19 virus. The person gets infected through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks, one can also be affected by coming into contact with surfaces contaminated with the virus(source#1). The disease displays symptoms that range from mild or severe illness; some of the common symptoms include breathing difficulties, fever, cough, and shortness of breath in more severe cases the infection can cause acute respiratory syndrome. Currently, there is no vaccine to protect us against the virus; therefore, the best way to protect ourselves is to avoid getting exposed to the virus. One can avoid the risk of getting detected by maintaining social distancing, wearing a mask that covers your nose and mouth in public gatherings, washing hands regularly, and with soap water or an alcohol-based sanitizer, disinfecting surfaces. Consequently, everyone has a risk of getting exposed to the virus, but older people and people with underlying medical conditions have a higher risk of contracting the infection since their immunity is low.
How Convid19 started
The novel coronavirus is said to have emerged from Wuhan, China. According to research believed that the virus humans could only contract coronaviruses when they come into contact with infected mammals, the most carriers of the virus being bats (source #2). There has been propaganda, especially between China and the USA, where the virus emerged. People said that the virus was a weapon, but this is not the case because scientific research demonstrates that humans did not engineer the virus and that it originates from the bats. But it is always important to know the origin of a pandemic to prevent pandemics in the future. The virus is said to have been spread by people who ate contaminated seafood in Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, scientists through genetic sequencing, identified the culprit as bat coronavirus, which means that food sold in the market had contacts with bats (source#2). This virus started spreading in china Wuhan city, and as people traveled all over the world, the disease spread globally with its impact felt in all continents.
Vaccine
Without a vaccine, the impact of the virus was across the globe. People full of fear and anxiety are looking onto and hoping that the scientists will come up with a vaccine for the convid19 virus. Our best efforts in curbing the spread of the illness seem effortless since, still with all this determination of social distancing, isolation, and wearing protective gear, still more deaths and infections reported daily; this indeed calls for a vaccine against the virus. Developing a vaccine time since there are steps in a vaccine development process, scientists argue that it will take months for a vaccine to be developed, approved, and be ready. Every country globally research institutes and pharmaceuticals are working tirelessly towards coming up with a vaccine, perhaps a global race in such of a vaccine(source#4). The idea behind the working of the vaccine is that it will produce molecules known as antigens and pathogens to immune the system. The immune system recognizes antigens as unwanted foreign invader hence forming antibodies which attack the pathogen before it infects the body (source#). The process of coming up with a vaccine for coronavirus has been quite simplified since a lot of research has been done on coronaviruses. President Donald Trump expressed his confident statements by saying that the vaccine will be out by November. For a vaccine to administered, it must run through several trials to prove its efficiency in fighting the virus; it must pass through a series of phase trials, and only at the final phase does the manufacturer apply for a license to produce the vaccine. America regaining its economic stability, and things getting back to normal might never happen unless a vaccine gets invented, Dr.Fauci (source#9)
Impact of convid19
Coronavirus has had a very significant effect on its impact, not felt at its early stages. Like any other disease, response in the early stages matters a lot. Despite senior scientists and health emergency experts in the US and all around the world delivered a warning in the early stages of the pandemic. It turned that the government didn’t take it with much weight, despite president trump being warned in January only inturn to compare it with seasonal flu. As the epidemic swept across the state in Us, the public blamed the president for late response leading to shortages of testing kits, protective gear for frontline health workers, and ventilators for the very sick (source#5). However, the government responded by coming up with strategies to combat the spread of the virus to ensure that the virus does not get to the full-blown period. It gets seen when the number of deaths rose and the number of infections increasing drastically. The government now was forced to come up with more robust measures to curb the spread of the virus; this includes suspension of all public gatherings, businesses shut down, schools, and colleges being closed all this harmed the economy. Although there has been an indifference between state leaders and the health sector officials, for example, Dr. Fauci disagrees with what the president says about the pandemic (source#6). Health systems have been overwhelmed and are not able to contain the virus. Some private hospitals were also operating in a loss because the number of cases is an overwhelming shortage in the health workforce and supplies. What was happening exposed the need for developing the Americas racial health sector, hence identifying a niche in the health sector (source#10),(source#11)
State and federal government response on convid19
America adopts a federal system of government; this system gets defined as the national government of the United States, whereby powers get divided between the central national government and the local state government. Notably, the two system means that they cannot operate in isolation, and therefore in movements of crisis, each come together (source#12) i.e., the central and the state government come together even though each unit has its area of jurisdiction. The division between the two groups will possibly make things worse. The state government of Texas has responded rapidly, especially being one of the states profoundly affected by the pandemic. They enhanced their traveling restrictions by ensuring that there are vehicle checkpoints on their state borders also more stringent measures by providing that visitors from other states which are coronavirus stricken to quarantine for 14 days(source#15). All these restrictions the government has come up with are to discourage travelers among the states; hence, in turn, reduce the magnitude of spreading the virus (source#16). The federal government will set out guidelines, but it is the responsibility of the state and local governments to carry them out; this means that governments must work as unity amid crises, and there should be no divisions among the states.
Young people have a responsibility.
Though, indeed, older and middle-aged people are frequently attacked by the virus quickly, this does not mean that young people excluded from contracting the virus. Scenarios have confirmed several young people have contracted the virus in the US between mage 29 to 44 amongst t14% to 20% are hospitalized. Young people need to comply with the directives for preventing the spread of the virus because they are not invincible as they can also be easily affected (source#8). It should get well noted that this disease could attack anyone exposed to it. On the other hand, this means that young people have the responsibility of taking care of themselves and the old because they can be infected and later infect others with necessarily not showing any sign and put the more venerable in danger.
Conclusion
Coronavirus is a global pandemic that has affected the whole America as seen above, .the effects and the impacts of the virus can get witnessed with the rising number of deaths and infections.