The document discusses COVID-19, detailing its origins as a novel strain of coronavirus and preventive measures like social distancing. It covers various treatments, including convalescent plasma therapy, nano materials to combat the virus, and stem cell therapy, highlighting some initial successes and ongoing trials. The document emphasizes the importance of herd immunity and references ongoing research and treatment efforts in hospitals across China and Texas.

1. BASICS ABOUT THE COVID-19
PREVENTIONS, TREATMENTS AND CURE
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2. Covid-19
Corona virus disease-2019
It was previously called as the 2019 novel corona virus,
since it’s a new strain that has not been previously
identified in humans
The SARS and the CoronaVirus are genetically related
but are two different diseases.

3. The virus causing the disease is the severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2)
The outbreak was first found to be in wuhan, china, in
december 2019
It’s a pandemic disease.

4. Preventive Measures

5. Social Distancing and lockdown
to be a major milestone to
prevent the spread of the
Corona virus

6. Why social distancing and
lockdown?

7. Various Treatments against the
Corona virus
plasma from recovered
COVID-19 patients to
treat others
Nano materials to
combat the corona
virus
Stem cell therapy to
treat and possibly cure
the corona infections
Herd Immunity

8. plasma from recovered COVID-19
patients to treat others
Doctors and researchers believe that the Convalescent plasma therapy could be effective until
the vaccine is discovered.

9. Areas that uses the plasma
therapy
five critically ill patients with
Covid-19 in shenzen, china all of
whom improved after receiving
convalescent plasma
transfusions
Texas hospitals that plan to try
the treatment include
Methodist Hospital Stone Oak
in San Antonio, University of
Texas Southwestern Medical
Center in Dallas and the Bayor
college of medicine in houston

10. Facts about the plasma
therapy
The Food and Drug
Administration has yet to
approve the treatment
but is allowing initial
clinical trials. Because
those trials are limited,
doctors nationally can
also request the FDA’s
permission to use the
treatment for severe
COVID-19 cases.
Since then, hospital
systems around the
nation have registered
through the Mayo Clinic
to start treating patients
with convalescent plasma
This is not the first time
physicians have used
plasma to combat
infectious diseases before
a vaccine is developed.
The technique was used
to treat hemorrhagic
fever in 1979 and the
spanish influenza

11. Nano materials to combat the
corona virus

12. China develops nano
materials that can
combat the corona virus
It is said that the nano
materials are smaller
than the human hair’s
diameter and can’t be
viewed by a naked eye.
They say that these
nano materials can bind
with the corona virus
especially the RNA’s and
would make them
inactive

13. Stem cell Therapy to possibly
cure the Corona Virus
Chinese doctors are having some initial success using stem
cells to treat — and possibly cure — coronavirus infections.
Dr. DongchengWu, who runs a stem cell lab inWuhan, China
– the epicenter of theCOVID-19 outbreak – says he has
successfully treated nine critically ill patients hospitalized
with coronavirus pneumonia.
BHI is currently recruiting 48 coronavirus patients in China
for a placebo-controlled study of MSC injections.
In studies on mice, researchers found that MSC cells
migrated to the lungs, where they significantly reduced
inflammation and repaired damaged tissue.

14. Herd Immunity
Considering an entire
population as an
Individual and
Immunizing them
against a particular
infectious Disease

15. Refrences
 https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/chi
na-develops-nanomaterial-to-combat-
coronavirus-report/1784416
 https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/20
20/3/22/chinese-scientists-using-stem-cells-
to-treat-coronavirus-patients
 https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/11/tex
as-hospitals-use-plasma-treat-coronavirus/