Since the end of 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic is still around us today. It is rare for an outbreak to be so severe and last so long. It also reminds people of the SARS epidemic in 2003, is there any connection between the two epidemics? Which outbreak is the virus more terrible?
SARS and the virus of COVID-19
At the end of 2002, the media reported that "the world's first SARS patient was hospitalized". The patient, a chef from a restaurant in Shenzhen, was initially unwell with symptoms of a cold and fever, but after several treatments, he did not get better. The situation improved through multiple hospital transfers and the treatment of many expert doctors. But at the same time, it was unfortunate to find that all the doctors who were in close contact with him were also infected with sarsmonic virus.
Although the chef was the first SARS patient to be reported, there were also remarks that infected people had appeared long before him. Regardless of the cause of the SARS virus, the outbreak did not last long, and was noted by WHO since the end of 2002 when it was announced by WHO in July 2003.
According to research, sarsmonic viruses and the new crown virus genome is more than 80% the same, and also belongs to the coronavirus, which can be described as a very similar situation in RNA viruses. In addition, more statistics show that from the beginning to the end of the SARS epidemic, there are more than 8,000 cases of infection, of which about 700 people died, compared with hundreds of millions of people diagnosed with the new crown, the mortality rate is only a little more than one percent, the SARS virus is even more deadly than the new crown virus. So why is the epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic still so "rampant" after more than two years of continuous epidemic prevention? Where is the coronavirus "more successful" than the SARS virus?
Why COVID-19 is "more successful"
This "success" is reflected in the following aspects, and it also makes the new crown epidemic not so easy to end.
It is precisely because the SARS patient is in a critical condition after the disease, so the people infected with him will be quickly isolated and treated, and the infection capacity of the SARS virus during the incubation period is very weak, and the earliest SARS patients who are infected are only infected with some close contact medical staff, and are not infected on a large scale. The long incubation period of the new crown virus, and the incubation period is also contagious, has also led to our inability to take measures as soon as we are infected with the new crown epidemic, and it is even more difficult to add asymptomatic infected people.
Second, the viability of the new crown virus is stronger than that of the SARS virus. Studies have shown that the viability of the two viruses is basically the same, but only on the "cardboard", after dozens of hours of experiments, the living new coronavirus can still be found, and it can be found that the viability of the new coronavirus is about nine times stronger than that of the SARS virus.
More importantly, it is difficult for the SARS virus to survive the high temperature, which is also a very important reason for the cessation of SARS that summer. The new crown virus has experienced two summers, but it is still in a "severe winter", which also shows the strength of its "survival strength", and the new crown virus is easy to "replace", every few months will mutate into a new state, which makes people feel more confused.
epilogue
Although there is no exact reason for the cessation of the SARS epidemic, the SARS virus of that year was not as "successful" as the new crown virus today. Now the spread of the new crown epidemic knows that the epidemic is menacing and cannot be underestimated. Under such an epidemic situation, China's epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic work has been done very well, and the domestic epidemic situation has been relatively well controlled. Therefore, we should heed the call of the state to protect public health and protect our own health during the epidemic, although it is difficult in these two years, we believe that the haze of the epidemic will soon pass!