Write a paragraph on the importance of staying
inside our houses during the lockdown.
Answers
Answer: It is a respiratory disease and spreads rapidly when droplets expelled by an infected person enters our mouth or nose
Only a small percentage of infected people require hospitalisation and Intensive care
It does not cause severe symptoms in about 80% of people infected
A majority of the infected people are asymptomatic, meaning they do not have any symptoms
Even asymptomatic people can spread the disease
These factors make COVID-19 a deadly disease. As the disease goes undetected, not every infected person will seek medical help. It goes unnoticed in the vast majority of the people infected and they silently go about spreading the disease to all their contacts. One asymptomatic person can infect 2.5 people and each of the infected persons can spread it to 2.5 people, so the rate of infection after a point grows exponentially. With our population and population density, if the disease spreads unchecked we will soon have an infected population in crores, even the small percentage of which requiring hospitalisation would overwhelm our healthcare system. The death toll would be unimaginable.
SARS and MERS were less infectious and more deadly. Their fatality rate was much higher than that of COVID-19, but COVID-19 surpasses the death toll of both due to the sheer number of infections.
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