{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"NYC","provider_url":"https:\/\/nyc-test.webdemo.gr\/en\/","author_name":"manager","author_url":"https:\/\/nyc-test.webdemo.gr\/en\/author\/manager\/","title":"THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC A brief essay on transmission, infection, symptoms and treatment - NYC","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yAs0Q0uzCW\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nyc-test.webdemo.gr\/en\/2020\/04\/23\/coronavirus-pandemic\/\">THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC A brief essay on transmission, infection, symptoms and treatment<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/nyc-test.webdemo.gr\/en\/2020\/04\/23\/coronavirus-pandemic\/embed\/#?secret=yAs0Q0uzCW\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC A brief essay on transmission, infection, symptoms and treatment&#8221; &#8212; NYC\" data-secret=\"yAs0Q0uzCW\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/nyc-test.webdemo.gr\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/nyc-test.webdemo.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/coronavirus-pandemic-768x494.png","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":386,"description":"December of 2019, in Wuhan, a large metropolitan area inside China's Hubei\u00a0province, an epidemic of unexplained low respiratory infections seemed to be emerging. On\u00a0December 31, cases where reported to the WHO country office in China. The first cases were\u00a0dubbed cases of \"pneumonia of unknown etiology.\u201d Soon after , the Chinese Center for\u00a0Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a thorough outbreak investigation and\u00a0eventually discovered that the disease may be attributed to a novel coronavirus belonging to\u00a0the coronavirus family (CoV) and that it\u2019s most likely origin was the Wuhan seafood market\u00a0where an animal to human transmission most probably occurred (Cascella, 2020). By\u00a0January 20, 2020 the first case had reported in the US and on January 30, 2020 the WHO\u00a0declared the outbreak to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (CNN,\u00a02020). Only a few weeks later on February 11, 2020 the WHO Director-General, announced\u00a0that the disease caused by the virus would be named \u201cCOVID-19,\" as an acronym for\u00a0\u201cCoronavirus Disease 2019\u201d and at that point the virus has began spreading around the globe\u00a0as countries began taking their first measures. Additionally it seemed that virus had a more\u00a0severe impact on elders and people with compromised immune systems, this was worrying as\u00a0some people rained asymptomatic and continued to spread the virus without knowledge of\u00a0doing so (Cascella, 2020). At this point, April 19, 2020, around 5 months after the initial\u00a0reported cases, more than 2 million people around the globe have contracted the novel\u00a0coronavirus while health care systems are struggling to cope with the huge numbers of\u00a0patients admitted to hospitals eventually leading to an increased mortality rate (WHO,\u00a0\"COVID-19 situation reports\", 2020). The situation is complicated and may be analyzed\u00a0from many different perspectives and fields as the outbreak has temporarily changed the\u00a0dynamics of how society operates. This essay will cover the basic biochemical processes\u00a0involved in the transmission and infection associated with COVID-19 along with symptoms,\u00a0complications, and treatment."}