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Pathophysiology of SARS- Coronavirus- 2 in mild to severe cases

                            electron microscope view of SARS COV-2attacking lung cells  Introduction: The SARS coronavirus 2 comes from the subfamily Orthocoronaviri nae , in the family Coronaviridae. These viruses occur in many organisms including humans and have been associated with zoonotic diseases for a long time. These positive-sense RNA viruses are commonly known to cause common cold in humans and rarely diarrheal symptoms in children. The cases that these viruses have started to affect humans are recent. Being completely new viruses for causing human diseases they have been a pretty nuisance in the past few decades. The 2003 SARS outbreak, 2013 MERS outbreak, and recent 2019 SARS COVID-19 outbreak are the periods when these viruses appeared so aggressively to cause Pandemic. The occurrence of  SARS and MERS was not that widespread and was contained within those fixed geographical locations but the case is not the same in SARS-COVID-2 where the whole world is suffering from a hu

COVID-19 and its global consequences

Coronavirus as seen in the electron microscope COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is a deadly flu that affects mainly the respiratory organs, remotely it has also been found that it might affect the kidney, liver, pancreas, and gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms mainly include dry cough, headache, and continuous fever along with fatigue. Old people and the people having comorbid conditions along with COVID-19 are likely to be in much threat. The virus which is closely related to SARS coronavirus and MERS coronavirus is spread to more than 210 countries and territories throughout the world. According to WHO the cases of this disease can be divided into mild, moderate, or severe cases and the severe cases require immediate medical attention with proper ICU care and ventilators to provide artificial respiration. The virus spreads via air droplets and its infectivity is two times more than the common flu which explains the high number of casualties and exponential increase of cases. The abs