write a paragraph on current situations on cvd-19
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s the coronavirus threatens health and upends daily life throughout the world, UofSC Today is turning to our faculty to help us make sense of it all. While no one can predict exactly what will happen in the coming weeks and months, our faculty can help us ask the right questions and put important context around emerging events.
Katherine Barbieri is an associate professor and vice chair of the political science department in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Her expertise is in the area of international relations and international political economy.
How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed the status quo of partisan political conversations in this country?
Early in February, there was widespread and robust concern around the globe that an excessive reaction to the COVID-19 threat, whose impact was unclear, would lead to a severe slowdown of the global economy. President Trump presumably shared this concern to the point of being accused of having ignored the epidemic. Now, COVID-19 has wiped out every other news story. The internal politics of the United States, trade between the United States and China, tensions between Iran and the United States, Brexit, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, not to mention North Korean nuclear proliferation — all have disappeared from the screens.
Katherine Barbieri
Political science associate professor and department vice chair Katherine Barbieri studies international relations and international political economy.
Initially, the fringe voices of the political right were particularly alarmed by COVID-19, while established liberals and their media allies were playing down the threat out of fear of giving aid and comfort to Sinophobia or populism. In March, the dynamic shifted. With the spread of the disease, Democrats abandoned their anti-quarantine stance in favor of reasonable panic, while conservatives split into two distinct camps. Some dusted off the classic themes of a conservatism that draws strength from external dangers, while others embraced a conservatism that we can define as a clannish denial. Lately, in the crisis, most conservatives and liberals have united in alarm at least over the disease and its impact on public health and the economy.
When it comes to government, COVID-19 is not what has most blurred the lines that separated free market and minimalist government advocates from supporters of big government. The Trump presidency does not lend itself to this traditional dichotomy. Trump is fiercely anti-socialist in his rhetoric. Still, his policies are about the government steering business to nationalist objectives and defending labor and its rights to jobs, while also pushing government planning and investment in large infrastructure projects. The vision of “making America great again” has required massive government intervention in the economy and increases in the federal budget deficit. This incoherence is so prominent that it has pushed some observers to describe the Trump administration's policy as “big-government anti-socialism.”
Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people. Detailed investigations found that SARS-CoV was transmitted from civet cats to humans and MERS-CoV from dromedary camels to humans. Several known coronaviruses are circulating in animals that have not yet infected humans.
Common signs of infection include respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties. In more severe cases, infection can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure and even death.
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