essay on covid-19 in 250 words
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The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020, and a pandemic in March 2020.
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The virus that causes COVID-19 infects people of all ages. However, evidence to date suggests that two groups of people are at a higher risk of getting severe COVID-19 disease. These are older people (that is people over 60 years old); and those with underlying medical conditions (such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, and cancer). The risk of severe disease gradually increases with age starting from around 40 years. It's important that adults in this age range protect themselves and in turn protect others that may be more vulnerable.
WHO has issued advice for these two groups and for community support to ensure that they are protected from COVID-19 without being isolated, stigmatized, left in a position of increased vulnerability or unable to access basic provisions and social care
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As an international organization based in New York City, we at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) have encountered the Covid-19 crisis on several levels, including familial, civic, scholarly, and global. Like many of you, we have also faced the challenges that characterize this uncertain period.
The crisis precipitated by the novel coronavirus has demanded that we all be more imaginative and resilient. While the SSRC takes on the pandemic’s immediate and imminent consequences with fresh approaches, we also recognize that scholarly deliberation and extended perspective play a unique and important role in this moment. We have been reflecting on how the tradition of our nearly century-old mission has attuned us to respond to our present, but with the flexibility required of this time.
Council staff have been working remotely since early March and will continue to do so for at least the next several weeks. Owing to their extraordinary combination of versatility and resolve, our work on behalf of scholars and scholarship has been uninterrupted. The Council’s fellowship and grant processes are proceeding and we’ll be launching new funding opportunities, as well (described below). All current fellowship and grant obligations are being fulfilled, with the deliberation of peer review and selection committees moving ahead virtually. The International Dissertation Research Fellowship program has just selected a new class of 70 doctoral researchers. SSRC program staff are working tirelessly to support our current fellows and grantees whose research and travel have been disrupted. Finally, we are committed to being as flexible as possible in helping scholars adjust their work plans and undertake their research under new conditions, including stimulating discussion of possible new methods for remote field research.
What remains constant during these times is the SSRC’s longstanding mission to support researchers and to advance and mobilize research for the public benefit. A mission that is most urgent today.
Moreover, this moment is embodying a crucial lesson: our lives and fates are intertwined in fact—if not always in awareness. Understanding this interconnectedness is the work of social science. At its best, social science enables us to use the tools of research to generate new insights and paradigms for how to flourish together in our intersecting communities.