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Dear Doctor,
Thank you for your Studies on Coronavirus.
The information you are discovering are very important for us: the virus is in the same family as SARS, but it’s different.
You say people to look for pneumonia-like symptoms (fever, cough, difficult breathing).
You say the virus is contagious and can be passed from person to person through the air.
Now we stay at home to stop the outbreak of the deadly virus. We hope it will help!!!
I know that you are looking for a cure for the virus: are you working with other countries?
I hear that Chinese doctors came to Italy to help with our patients... do you agree?
Do you think you will find a vaccine valid for everybody?
People feel fearful because virus can mutate and spread further: what do you think about that?
Thank you for your patience and engagement against Coronavirus, I know it is dangerous for you too.
Take care.
Federico S.
Letters to an expert
Good morning Mr. Expert
I’m here, writing this letter, to have more information about the pandemic generated by the Coronavirus. This virus worries the entire world and the people who have caught it and are now in the hospitals to wait for an hope to come back home. I’m here to write this letter because I’m not worried, but I want to know what is behind of this international problem. I want to know if it could be avoided.
I continuously hear on the television that it is the first time that we have this type of world disease, but I think that in the whole history there are some viruses even more dangerous than this COVID-19 as the SANS virus or the plague virus. I want to know if there is a way out from this pandemic. I mean that I’m not an expert like you but I’ve made an hypothesis: if all the people who haven’t caught the Coronavirus stay at home and the other people who have the virus stay in hospital why do we have to wait so long when the doctors themselves have stated that the virus remains in our body for up to 2 weeks?
I know that there are people who still hang out and do not listen to the several request of the government to stay at home. I am lockdown since the government started to send statements and I am still waiting for a turn of the situation to be able to see a way out and to be able to read a statement where they say that we can resume living our everyday life.
At least give me hope, I fully trust in your work.
Thanks.
Elena D.