Corona-Virus (COVID-19) Disease & Deaths
What is Corona-Virus?

Family of Viruses, which causes various types of infections in humans

Types of Corona-Virus infections

  1. Corona-Virus (COVID-19): Recently discovered in 2019, this causes Corona-virus disease (currently Pandemic across the world).
  2. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV)
  3. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV)
What is the rate of Death from Corona-Virus (COVID-19) Disease?
  1. NOT all patients who get the disease die from it.
  2. In fact, most of the patients only get mild symptoms requiring no treatment.
  3. The rate of death is very low for age less than 50 and people with no other major heart or lung disease.
Who are at higher rate of complications including death?(based on research march 2020)
  1. Coexisting condition, including abnormally high blood pressure, diabetes and coronary heart disease
  2. Advancing age: usually developed sepsis.
  3. Coronary heart disease has also been linked to cardiac events and poor outcomes in patients with flu and other respiratory viral infections.
  4. Cancers
  5. Chronic lung disease
Cause of Deaths
  1. Based on the current available information from research published, the following are the main causes of deaths
    1. Advanced age with signs of sepsis involving multiple organs of the body.
    2. blood clotting issues
    3. Severe pneumonia effecting the oxygenation of body
    4. Severely effecting heart pumping, causing heart to stop.


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