SvenskaThis headline is crucial now. To stay calm, show patience to people around you. Think of protecting yourself from getting infected, and also protect people around you by eg coughing in your arm. This coronavirus is not similar to the swineflu since it is a more complicated virus with regard diverse epidemiological and biological characteristics. Today there is no vaccin, but fortunately China has released the RNA sequence so laboratories world wide can work and collaborate on a vaccin. They say it will take time, and it is time-consuming since they have to learn how to culture this virus in a laboratory, do animal testings and later clinical trials before the vaccin can be made available for human injections.
It is difficult to make conclusions from news about the virus. Has it reached the peak? Is the spreading under control? Etc etc. Something I have noticed is that it is a kind of SARS virus, and the world fought this virus in 2003. The 2019-nCoV is officially called SARS-CoV-2 and is the cause of the disease named COVID-19. Maybe some parallells can be found. To the best of my knowledge, one of the main focuses then, and successes, was to try to stop spreading the virus. Extreme quarantine measures, including sealing off large cities, closing borders and confining people to their homes. Isolate patients to minimize the disease burden locally and globally. You can find some from that time here: SARS 2003 People died in this global epidemic, and Dr Carlo Urbani working for the WHO in Vietnam, died protecting others as you can read about. The national and international response demonstrates the complex link between public health, science and politics when an outbreak threatens global economies and reputations.
Today is International woman’s day, but there is nothing particular going on in Sweden from what I have seen. It is celebrated in other countries like Russia I have been told. I remembered the voyage I did to Vietnam a few years ago where women have a strong position in society. Sharing a few memories.
