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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)[2][3] is the strain of coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the respiratory illness responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Colloquially known as simply the coronavirus, it was previously referred to by its provisional name, 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV),[4][5][6][7] and has also been called human coronavirus 2019 (HCoV-19 or hCoV-19).[8][9][10][11] The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020.[12][13]
SARS-CoV-2 is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus[14] that is contagious in humans.[15] As described by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, it is the successor to SARS-CoV-1,[10][16] the strain that caused the 2002–2004 SARS outbreThe United Nations has asked the whole world to help:
At this time our seniors are at the most highest risk of dying from SARS 2 – COVID – 19:
What explains Covid-19's lethality for the elderly? - STAT
www.statnews.com › 2020/03/30 › what-explains-coro...Mar 30, 2020 - By comparison, that is more than 30 times greater than the death rate ... the elderly: 38% of Italy's Covid-19 cases are in people 70 and older, ...
www.cdc.gov › 2019-ncov › need-extra-precautions 8 out of 10 deaths reported in the U.S. have been in adults 65 years old and older. See below for estimated percent of adults with confirmed COVID-19 reported ...
82% of Canada's COVID-19 deaths have been in long-term care
www.thestar.com › politics › federal › 2020/05/07 › 82...
May 7, 2020 - ... elderly Canadians in long-term care during the COVID-19 outbreak, ... Canada has the highest proportion of deaths from COVID-19 in long ...
Anxiety, Loneliness and Depression are but a few result of long-term isolation.
Mental health issues fall between the cracks in everyone's agenda. Each organization needs to explicitly include people with mental disorders as part of their program. They can increase their impact by working together with WHO through the Mental Health Policy Project.
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The virus has been named “SARS-CoV-2” and the disease it causes has been named “coronavirus disease 2019” (abbreviated “COVID-19”)
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