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Michelangelo school's students answer some questions

1.What do you know about the coronavirus?

The virus that causes COVID-19 and the one that caused the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 are related to each other genetically, but the diseases they cause are quite different. There is no specific treatment for disease caused by the new coronavirus. However, many of the symptoms can be treated and therefore treatment is based on the patient's clinical condition. People of all ages can be infected by the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Older people and people with pre-existing medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, and heart disease) appear to be more vulnerable to becoming severely ill with the virus.

WHO advises people of all ages to take steps to protect themselves from the virus, for example by following good hand hygiene and good respiratory hygiene.

The most common symptoms are fever, cough, shortness of breath, and breathing difficulties. In more severe cases, infection can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, and even death. The period within which the symptoms would appear is 2-14 days.

2.How worried are you about the coronavirus?

I am very worried about it, or, to be clearer, I am worried for weak in health people that could die from this disease (or have a very bad time)

3.What has your country told you about the coronavirus?

That it represents the hardest Italian crisis from the postwar period.

4.How serious is a global pandemic?

It is very serious because if it affects so many people it will be harder to contain and extinguish it.

5.What are governments doing to stop the pandemic?

They are extending a domestic quarantine across the countries and caring for the ill people.

6.What are you doing now that your country is in lockdown?

Quite the same things, playing bass, study for school, study Japanese, sometimes drawing, I’m a sedentary type of guy.

7.Do you think scientists will find a cure for the coronavirus?

Obviously not, and it’s ok that way. However, without rushing things, we’ll surely find the way to produce a vaccine!

8.What questions would you like to ask the virologists?

I would ask them quite the same questions I was asked:

1.What do you know about the coronavirus so far?

2.How worried should we be about the coronavirus?

3.What have you told to your country about the coronavirus?

4.How serious will this global pandemic be?

5.What are governments and you scientists doing to stop the pandemic?

6.What are you doing now that your country is in lockdown? What type of researches exactly?

7.Do you and your colleagues will find a cure (/vaccine) for the coronavirus?

Paolo D.

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