COVID-19's full name
Coronavirus is a very common respiratory virus, which can cause respiratory infection, that is, upper respiratory infection or lower respiratory pneumonia.
Tan Desai, Director-General of the World Health Organization, said that the name was chosen to prevent the virus infection from being associated with regions, small animals or myself, and to remove all kinds of tips.
Pathogenic characteristics
According to the existing case data, novel coronavirus is mainly characterized by fever, dry cough and fatigue, and a few patients are accompanied by symptoms of upper respiratory tract and digestive tract such as nasal congestion, runny nose and diarrhea.
Most severe cases have dyspnea after 1 week, and severe cases rapidly progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, metabolic acidosis that is difficult to correct, bleeding and coagulation dysfunction and multiple organ failure.
It is worth noting that severe and critically ill patients may have moderate to low fever or even no obvious fever during the course of the disease. Mild patients only show low fever and mild fatigue. , and no pneumonia. Judging from the cases admitted at present, most patients have recovered well, and a few patients are in critical condition. The prognosis of the elderly and those with chronic basic diseases is poor. The symptoms of children's cases are relatively mild.