CORONAVIRUS recovery: HOW DO PEOPLE RECOVER?

CORONAVIRUS recovery: HOW DO PEOPLE RECOVER?

CORONAVIRUS news seems to be focused on new cases and deaths... but how many people have recovered? And how do people recover from coronavirus?

How many people have coronavirus?
Globally, there are more than 1,925,190 cases of coronavirus, and over 119,701 of these people have died.

What you don't hear often is that 447,833 of these have recovered.

Of all the closed cases, a staggering 82% are recoveries.

How do you recover from coronavirus?
There is currently no cure for the virus, but scientists are working to get one made and distributed rapidly.

For eight out of ten people- the virus is mild and flu-like.

Just like the flu, you can recover by resting, drinking lots of water, and taking paracetamol

Most won't need hospital care and will recover without any help in about a week especially if you don't have any chronic disease.

However, if you think you have coronavirus, you must self isolate for 14 days at least.

The situation is going to be assessed once a month from now on. The time it takes to recover depends on the severity of symptoms, age and other medical conditions of the patient

*WHY DO PEOPLE DIE FROM CORONAVIRUS?

Some people develop a more serious form of coronavirus when their immune system overreacts to the virus.

This causes inflammation of the lungs- better known as pneumonia.

With pneumonia, tiny sacs in the lungs start to fill up with water and this leads to shortness of breath.

Around 14 percent of people in China experienced this.

Even worse, six percent of cases can become critically ill.

Their bodies start to fail and death is a real possibility for this group.

The immune system begins to spiral out of control and this can cause septic shock.

Septic shock is when your blood pressure drops so low that your organs stop working.