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ಕೊರೋನಾ ವೈರಸ್‌ ಹೇಗೆ ಹರಡುತ್ತದೆ? ಇದರ ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳೇನು?

ಏನದು, ಕೊರೋನಾ ರೋಗ ? ಕೋವಿಡ್‌ 19 ಅಂದರೆ, ಕೋ ಅಂದರೆ ಕೊರೋನಾ, ವಿ ಎಂದರೆ ವೈರಸ್‌, ಡಿ ಅಂದರೆ ಡಿಸೀಸ್‌ ಅಥವಾ ರೋಗ. 19 ಅಂದರೆ ಇಸವಿ. 2019ನಲ್ಲಿ ಚೀನಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಇದು ಶುರುವಾದ ಕಾರಣ ಇದರಲ್ಲಿ ಇಸವಿಯೂ ಸೇರಿದೆ.

ಇಡೀ ಭೂಮಿಯನ್ನೇ ಅಲ್ಲೋಲ ಕಲ್ಲೋಲ ಮಾಡಿದ ಈ ರೋಗದ ಭೀಕರತೆ ಅಷ್ಟೊಂದಿದೆಯಾ ಅನ್ನುವ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗೆ ಉತ್ತರ ಹೀಗಿದೆ.

ಈ ರೋಗ ಮೊದಲು ಚೀನಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಆರಂಭವಾದಾಗ ಮೊದ ಮೊದಲು ಅಷ್ಟೊಂದು ತೀವ್ರವಾಗಿ ಯಾರೂ ಚಿಂತಿಸಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಆದರೆ ಕೊನೆ ಕೊನೆಗೆ ಚಿಂತಿಸುತ್ತಲೇ ಹೋರಾಡಬೇಕಾದ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿ ಬಂದೊದಗಿತು. ಪ್ರಯಾಣ, ಸಂಪರ್ಕ, ಸಹವಾಸದಿಂದ ಇದು ಸಾಂಕ್ರಾಮಿಕವಾಗಿ ಹಬ್ಬಿತು, ಲಂಕಾದಹನದಂತೆ.

ಹೀಗಾಗಿ ಅಸಡ್ಡೆ ಅಥವಾ ನಿಧಾನ ಗತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಕೋವಿಡ್‌ 19 ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಕ್ರಮ ಕೈಗೊಳ್ಳೋಣ. ಅವಸರ ಬೇಡ ಎಂಬ ನಿರ್ಣಯ ತಪ್ಪು. ಇದು ಅತಿ ಬೇಗನೆ ಹರಡುವ ಸಾಂಕ್ರಾಮಿಕ ರೋಗವೆಂದು ವಿಶ್ವ ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯೇ ಹೇಳಿರುವ ಕಾರಣ ಕ್ಷಿಪ್ರ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆ ಅತ್ಯಗತ್ಯ.

ಕೆನಡಾ ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ಪತ್ನಿಯನ್ನೂ ಬಿಡದ ಕೊರೋನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಸೋಂಕು!

ಇದರ ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳೇನು?

- ಕೆಲವರಿಗೆ ಕೆಮ್ಮು, ನೆಗಡಿ.

- ಹಲವರಿಗೆ ಜ್ವರ, ಮೈ ಕೈ ನೋವು.

- ಗಂಟಲು ಕೆರೆತ.

- ವಾಂತಿ, ವಾಕರಿಕೆ.

- ಕೊನೆಗೆ ಉಸಿರಾಡಲು ಕಷ್ಟವಾಗೋದು.

ಇಷ್ಟಾದರೂ ಈ ಎಲ್ಲ ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳು ಮಾತ್ರ ಕೊರೋನಾ ಸೂಚಕವೇ ಅಂದರೆ ಅಲ್ಲ.

ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳು ಕಂಡರೆ ಏನು ಮಾಡಬೇಕು?

ನೀವುಗಳು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಕುಟುಂಬ ವೈದ್ಯರನ್ನು ಕೂಡಲೇ ಸಂಪರ್ಕಿಸಿ. ಅವರು ಖಾಯಿಲೆ ಲಕ್ಷಣ, ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿಗಳ ಆಧಾರದಿಂದ ನಿಭಾಯಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ.

ಕೆಮ್ಮು, ನೆಗಡಿ, ಜ್ವರ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿಗಳು ಕಂಡುಬಂದಾಗ ಕಂಡಲ್ಲಿ ಕಂಡಲ್ಲಿ ಸೀನುವುದಾಗಲೀ, ಕೆಮ್ಮುವುದಾಗಲೀ, ಉಗುಳುವುದಾಗಲೀ ಮಾಡಬಾರದು. ಕರವಸ್ತ್ರ ಅಥವಾ ಟಿಶ್ಯೂ ಪೇಪರ್‌ ಹಿಡಿದುಕೊಂಡು ಕೆಮ್ಮುವುದು, ಸೀನುವುದರಿಂದ ಇನ್ನೊಬ್ಬರಿಗೆ ರೋಗ ಹರಡದಂತೆ ತಡೆಯಬಹುದು. ಮನೆ ಮಂದಿಯನ್ನು ದೂರವಿಟ್ಟು ನಿಮ್ಮವರನ್ನು ರಕ್ಷಿಸಿ.

ಈ ಟಿಪ್ಸ್ ಪಾಲಿಸಿದ್ರೆ ಕೊರೋನಾ ಸೋಂಕು ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ತಾಕದು!

ರಕ್ತ, ಮಲ, ಮೂತ್ರ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿಗಳಿಂದ ಈ ರೋಗ ಅಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಪ್ರಬಲವಾಗಿ ಹರಡುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಈ ಖಾಯಿಲೆ ಕಂಡ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳನ್ನು ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕವಾಗಿರಿಸಿ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆ ನೀಡಿದಲ್ಲಿ ನಾವು ಗೆದ್ದ ಹಾಗೆ.

ಮಾಲ್‌ಗಳು, ಮಾರ್ಕೆಟ್‌ಗಳು, ಜನ ನಿಬಿಡ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳು, ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಮಂದಿರ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿಗಳನ್ನು ಸದ್ಯದ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ದೂರವಿಡಿ. ನೀವು ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುವ ಜಾಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಎಚ್ಚರವಾಗಿದ್ದುಕೊಂಡು ಪ್ರತಿ 2-3 ದಿನಗಳಿಗೊಮ್ಮೆ ಗೋಷ್ಠಿ ನಡೆಸಿ ಯಾರಾದರೂ ರೋಗದ ಲಕ್ಷಣ ಉಳ್ಳವರಿದ್ದರೆ ಅವರನ್ನು ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕಿಸಿ ಅನಗತ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಮಾಸ್ಕ್‌ ಧರಿಸುವುದಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಖಾಲೆ ಶಂಕಿತರು ಧರಿಸುವುದು ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮ. ಮನೆಯೊಳಗೆ ಇರುವ ಮಗು, ತಾಯಿ ಆಗಾಗ ಕೈ-ಮುಖ ತೊಳೆಯುವುದು, ಮಗುವಿನ ಮುಖಕ್ಕೆ ಮಾಸ್ಕ್‌ ಹಾಕುವುದು ಸರಿಯಲ್ಲ. ಅದು ಗಾಳಿಯಿಂದ ಹರಡುವುದಾದರೂ ಕಫ, ಸೀನು ಇವುಗಳ ಸಿಂಚನದಿಂದ ಆ ವೈರಸ್‌ ನಮ್ಮ ದೇಹವನ್ನು ಶ್ವಾಸನಾಳದ ಮೂಲಕ ಮುಖಾಂತರ ಸೇರುತ್ತದೆ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಆಗಾಗ ಬಿಸಿ ನೀರು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಕುಡಿಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದು, ತನ್ಮೂಲಕ ಅಪ್ಪಿತಪ್ಪಿ ನಮ್ಮ ಗಂಟಲನ್ನು ಜೀವಾಣು ಪ್ರವೇಶಿಸಿದ್ದರೂ ನೀರು ಕುಡಿಯುವುದರಿಂದ ಆಮ್ಲ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮದ ಜಠರ ಪ್ರವೇಶಿಸಿ ಅಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಸಾಯುತ್ತದೆ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಗಂಟಲು ಒದ್ದೆಯಾಗಿರಲಿ.

ನೀವು ಜನರೊಂದಿಗೆ ಬೆರೆಯುವ ವ್ಯವಹರಿಸುವ ನಿರಂತರವಾಗಿ ಇನ್ನೊಬ್ಬರ ಸಂಪರ್ಕದಲ್ಲಿರುವವರಾದರೆ ಆಗಾಗ್ಗೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಕೈಗಳನ್ನು dಜಿsಜ್ಞ್ಛಿಛ್ಚಿಠಿa್ಞಠಿ sp್ಟay ದ್ರಾವಣದಿಂದ ಆಗಾಗ ತೊಳೆಯಬೇಕು. ಹಾಗೆಂದು ಮನೆಯೊಳಗೆ ಕುಳಿತಿರುವವರು ಈ ರೀತಿ ಮಾಡಬೇಕೆಂದೇನೂ ಇಲ್ಲ.

ಮನೆಯಿಂದ ಹೊರ ಹೋದರೆ ಎರಡು ಬಾರಿ ಸ್ನಾನ ಮಾಡೋದು ಉತ್ತಮ. ಹೊರಗಿನಿಂದ ಬಂದು ಮೈ ಕೈ ಸ್ವಚ್ಛವಾಗಿ ತೊಳೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳದೇ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ಮುದ್ದಿಸಬೇಡಿ. ನಿಮ್ಮ ನೆರೆಹೊರೆಯವರನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ನಿಮ್ಮದೇ ಒಂದು ಗುಂಪು ರಚಿಸಿ ಎಚ್ಚರದ ಕಣ್ಣು ಹಾಗೂ ಹೆಜ್ಜೆ ಇಟ್ಟರೆ ನಿಮಗೆ ಈ ಸೋಂಕು ತಗಲುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.

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ರೋಗ ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಂಡ ಪ್ರದೇಶಕ್ಕೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಸಲ ಹೋಗುವುದು ಅಪಾಯ. ವಿನಾಕಾರಣ ಬೇರೆ ದೇಶಗಳಿಗೆ ಪ್ರಯಾಣಿಸುವುದು ಬೇಡವೇ ಬೇಡ.

ಕೊರೋನಾ ವೈರಸ್‌ ಹೇಗೆ ಹರಡುತ್ತದೆ?

1. ಕುಡಿಯುವ ನೀರಿನಿಂದ ಹರಡುತ್ತದೆಯೇ?

-ಇಲ್ಲ. ಇಲ್ಲಿಯತನಕ ಕುಡಿಯುವ ನೀರಲ್ಲಿ ಕೋವಿಡ್‌-19 ಪತ್ತೆಯಾಗಿಲ್ಲ.

2. ಮಲಮೂತ್ರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ, ರಕ್ತಕಶ್ಮಲಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ವೈರಸ್‌ ಇದೆಯೇ?

-ಕೆಲವು ಕೋವಿಡ್‌-19 ಪಾಸಿಟಿವ್‌ ರೋಗಿಗಳ ಮಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ವೈರಸ್‌ ಕಂಡುಬಂದರೂ, ಅದು ರೋಗ ಹರಡುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಎಷ್ಟರ ಮಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂಬ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಖಚಿತ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಹಿಂದಿನ ಸಾರ್ಸ್‌ ಹಾಗೂ ಮರ್ಸ್‌ (ಮಿಡ್ಲ್‌ ಈಸ್ಟ್‌ ರೆಸ್ಪಿರೇಟರಿ ಸಿಂಡ್ರೋಮ್‌) ಹಬ್ಬಿದಾಗ ನಡೆದ ಸಂಶೋಧನೆಯ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಮಲಮೂತ್ರಗಳಿಂದ ಹಬ್ಬುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ತೀರಾ ಕಡಿಮೆ.

3. ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಕೊಳ, ಸ್ನಾನದ ಮನೆಯಿಂದ ಹಬ್ಬೀತೇ?

- ಇಲ್ಲ, ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಶುದ್ಧೀಕರಿಸುವ ವಿಧಾನದಿಂದಾಗಿ ಇವೆಲ್ಲ ಶುದ್ಧವಾಗಿಯೇ ಇರುತ್ತವೆ. ಇಲ್ಲಿಂದ ವೈರಸ್‌ ಹರಡುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಕಡಿಮೆ.

4. ಚರಂಡಿ ಮತ್ತು ಒಳಚರಂಡಿಯ ನೀರಿನಿಂದ ಹಬ್ಬುವುದೇ?

- ಇಲ್ಲ, ಆದರೆ ಅವರು ಸುರಕ್ಷಿತ ವಿಧಾನಗಳನ್ನು ಬಳಸುವುದು ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು. ತಾವು ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುವಾಗ ಎಚ್ಚರದಿಂದ ಇರಬೇಕು ಮತ್ತು ಸೂಕ್ತ ವೈದ್ಯಕೀಯ ಕ್ರಮಗಳನ್ನು ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕು.

ಯಾರು ಈ ರೋಗಕ್ಕೆ ಬಲಿಯಾಗುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿದೆ?

ಸೋಂಕು ತಗುಲುವ ಮನುಷ್ಯನಿಗೆ ದೀರ್ಘ ಕಾಲದಿಂದ ಈ ಕೆಳಗಿನ ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳಿದ್ದರೆ

- ದೀರ್ಘ ಕಾಲದಿಂದ ರಕ್ತದೊತ್ತಡ

- ಮಧುಮೇಹದಿಂದ ಬಳಲುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ

- ಪ್ರತಿರೋಧ ಶಕ್ತಿ ಕಡಿಮೆಯಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ

ಈ ಸೋಂಕು ಮಾರಣಾಂತಿಕವಾಗಬಹುದು.

- ಈವರೆಗಿನ ಅಂಕಿ ಅಂಶಗಳ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ವೃದ್ಧರು ಹಾಗೂ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ಈ ವೈರಸ್‌ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಪ್ರಮಾಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಲಿ ಪಡೆದಿದೆ.

- ರೋಗಿಯ ಹತ್ತಿರದ ಬಂಧುಗಳು ಹಾಗೂ ಸೋಂಕಿತರಿಗೆ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆ ನೀಡುವ ವೈದ್ಯರು, ಶುಶ್ರೂಷಕಿಯರು ಅತೀ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಜಾಗೃತೆಯಿಂದಿರಬೇಕು. ರೋಗಿಯನ್ನು ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕವಾಗಿ ಐಸೋಲೇಶನ್‌ನಲ್ಲಿರಿಸಿ ಕ್ರಮಬದ್ಧವಾಗಿ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆ ನೀಡಬೇಕು.

ಅಂಕಿ ಅಂಶಗಳು ಏನು ಹೇಳುತ್ತವೆ?

ಜಗತ್ತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನಿನ್ನೆಯವರೆಗೆ 1,46,299 ಜನರಿಗೆ ಕೊರೋನಾ ವೈರಸ್‌ ತಗುಲಿದೆ. 5,441 ಜನರು ಮೃತಪಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ನಮ್ಮ ದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಈವರೆಗೆ ಈ ವೈರಸ್‌ ಸೋಂಕು ತಗುಲಿದವರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ 86. ಈ 86 ಜನರಲ್ಲಿ 64 ಜನ ನಮ್ಮ ದೇಶದವರೇ. ಉಳಿದ 17 ಜನ ಬೇರೆ ದೇಶದವರು. ಹೊರದೇಶದಿಂದ ಯಾತ್ರೆ ಮುಗಿಸಿ ಬಂದ ವೃದ್ಧರೊಬ್ಬರ ಸಾವು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲೇ ಆಗಿದೆ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ನಮ್ಮ ದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೃತಪಟ್ಟವರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ 2.

• Coronavirus
• ಲೈಫ್‌ಸ್ಟೈಲ್‌
• ಕೊರೋನಾ ವೈರಸ್

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ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಎಂದರೆ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ವೈರಸ್ ಗಳ ಒಂದು ಗುಂಪು. ವೈರಸ್ ಗಳ ಮೇಲ್ಮೈಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಿರೀಟದಂತಹ ವಿನ್ಯಾಸವಿರುವ ಕಾರಣದಿಂದಾಗಿ ಹೀಗೆ ಹೆಸರಿಡಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಕೆಲವು ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಕೇವಲ ಪ್ರಾಣಿಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಬೀರುವುದು.ಇನ್ನು ಕೆಲವು ವೈರಸ್ ಗಳು ಮನುಷ್ಯರ ಮೇಲೆ ಕೂಡ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಬೀರುವುದು.

ಇದು ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಶೀತದಂತಹ ಲಘು ಪ್ರಮಾಣದಿಂದ ಮಧ್ಯಮ ಪ್ರಮಾಣದ ಮೇಲ್ಭಾಗದ ಶ್ವಾಸಕೋಶದ ಸೋಂಕನ್ನು ಉಂಟು ಮಾಡುವುದು.

ಆದರೆ ಇದು ಕೆಲವೊಂದು ಸಲ ತೀವ್ರ ರೀತಿಯ ನ್ಯುಮೋನಿಯಾ ಮತ್ತು ಬ್ರಾಂಕೈಟಿಸ್ ಉಂಟು ಮಾಡುವುದು. ಮನುಷ್ಯರನ್ನು ಕಾಡುವಂತಹ ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಹಲವು ವಿಧಗಳು ಇವೆ.

ಇದರಲ್ಲಿ ಮೆರ್ಸ್ ಮತ್ತು ಸಾರ್ಸ್ ವೈರಸ್ ಸೇರಿದೆ.

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​ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಹಬ್ಬುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ?

* ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಒಬ್ಬ ಮನುಷ್ಯನಿಂದ ಮತ್ತೊಬ್ಬನಿಗೆ ಹಬ್ಬುವುದು.

* ಶೀನು ಮತ್ತು ಕೆಮ್ಮಿನ ಗಾಳಿಯಿಂದ.

* ತುಂಬಾ ಹತ್ತಿರ ದೈಹಿಕ ಸಂಪರ್ಕದಿಂದ. ಉದಾಹರಣೆಗೆ ಸ್ಪರ್ಶ ಮತ್ತು ಹಸ್ತಲಾಘವ

* ವೈರಸ್ ಇರುವ ವಸ್ತುವನ್ನು ಮುಟ್ಟುವುದು, ಇದರ ಬಳಿಕ ಬಾಯಿ, ಮೂಗು ಅಥವಾ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳನ್ನು ಕೈ ತೊಳೆಯದೆ ಮುಟ್ಟಿದರೆ.

*ಅಪರೂಪದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಲದ ಮೂಲಕ

​ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಸೋಂಕಿನಿಂದ ಆಗುವ ಅಪಾಯಗಳು?

ಯಾರಿಗೂ ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಬರಬಹುದು. ಆದರೆ ಸಣ್ಣ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಇದು ಬೇಗನೆ ಹರಡುವುದು. ಅಮೆರಿಕಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಇದು ಚಳಿಗಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಂಡುಬರುವಂತಹ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯಾಗಿದೆ.

​ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ನ ಕೆಲವು ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳು ಯಾವುದು?

ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಯಾವ ರೀತಿಯದ್ದು ಮತ್ತು ಸೋಂಕು ಎಷ್ಟು ಗಂಭೀರವಾಗಿದೆ ಎನ್ನುವುದರ ಮೇಲೆ ಇದರ ಲಕ್ಷಣವು ಅವಲಂಬಿಸಿದೆ. ಶೀತದಂತಹ ಶ್ವಾಸಕೋಶದ ಮೇಲ್ಬಾಗದ ಸೋಂಕಿಗೆ ಒಳಗಾಗಿದ್ದರೆ ಆಗ ನಿಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ರೀತಿಯ ಕೆಲವು ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳೂ ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು.

*ಮೂಗು ಸೋರುವುದು

*ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿ ಅನಾರೋಗ್ಯ

ಕೆಮ್ಮಿಗೆ ತ್ವರಿತ ಪರಿಹಾರ ನೀಡುವ ಪವರ್‌ಫುಲ್ ಮನೆಮದ್ದುಗಳು

ಈ ರೋಗದ ವೈರಸ್‌ಗಳು ತುಂಬಾನೇ ಡೇಂಜರಸ್

ಕೆಲವು ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್‌ಗಳು ತೀವ್ರ ರೀತಿಯ ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳನ್ನು ತೋರಿಸುವುದು. ಈ ಸೋಂಕು ಬ್ರಾಂಕೈಟಿಸ್ ಅಥವಾ ನ್ಯುಮೋನಿಯಾ ಆಗಿ ಪರಿವರ್ತನೆ ಆಗಬಹುದು.

ಇದರ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳೆಂದರೆ*ಕಫದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಕೆಮ್ಮು*ಉಸಿರು ಕಟ್ಟುವಿಕೆ*ಎದೆ ನೋವು ಅಥವಾ ಕೆಮ್ಮು ಅಥವಾ ಉಸಿರಾಟದ ವೇಳೆ ಬಿಗಿ ಹಿಡಿತ*ಹೃದಯ ಮತ್ತು ಶ್ವಾಸಕೋಶದ ಕಾಯಿಲೆ ಇರುವವರಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ತೀವ್ರವಾದ ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳು ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ.

*ಇದರೊಂದಿಗೆ ದುರ್ಬಲ ಪ್ರತಿರೋಧಕ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ ಹೊಂದಿರುವಂತಹ ಶಿಶುಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ವಯಸ್ಸಾದವರಲ್ಲಿ ಇದು ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ.

ಬ್ರಾಂಕೈಟಿಸ್‌ಗೆ ಸರಳ ಮನೆಮದ್ದುಗಳು

​ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಪತ್ತೆ ಮಾಡುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ?

• ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಪತ್ತೆ ಮಾಡಲು ವೈದ್ಯರು
• ವೈದ್ಯಕೀಯ ಇತಿಹಾಸ ತಿಳಿಯುವರು
• ದೈಹಿಕ ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆ ಮಾಡುವರು
• ರಕ್ತ ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು.
• ಕಫ, ಗಂಟಲಿನ ಸ್ವಾಬ್ ನ ಮಾದರಿ ಮತ್ತು ಇತರ ಉಸಿರಾಟದ ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆ ಮಾಡಿಸಬಹುದು.

​ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಗೆ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆಗಳು ಯಾವುದು?

ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಸೋಂಕಿಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ರೀತಿಯ ನಿರ್ದಿಷ್ಟ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆಗಳಿಲ್ಲ. ಕೆಲವು ಜನರು ಅವರಾಗಿಯೇ ಚೇತರಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವರು. ಆದರೆ ಇದರ ಲಕ್ಷಣಗಳನ್ನು ಈ ರೀತಿಯಾಗಿ ಕಡಿಮೆ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು.

*ನೋವು, ಜ್ವರ ಮತ್ತು ಕೆಮ್ಮಿಗೆ ಮಾತ್ರೆ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು. ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಆಸ್ಪಿರಿನ್ ಕೊಡಬೇಡಿ. ನಾಲ್ಕು ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಕಡಿಮೆ ವಯಸ್ಸಿನ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಕೆಮ್ಮಿನ ಔಷಧಿ ನೀಡಬೇಡಿ.

*ಕೆಮ್ಮು ಮತ್ತು ಗಂಟಲು ನೋವು ಕಡಿಮೆ ಮಾಡಲು ಬಿಸಿ ನೀರಿನ ಸ್ನಾನ ಮಾಡುವುದು ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು.

*ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿ ಪಡೆಯಿರಿ.

ನೀರಿನಾಂಶ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಸೇವಿಸಿ.

​ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ತಡೆಯಬಹುದೇ?

ಈಗ ಮನುಷ್ಯರಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಡುವ ಕೊರೊನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ರೀತಿಯ ಔಷಧಿಯಿಲ್ಲ. ಆದರೆ ಇದು ಹರಡದಂತೆ ತಡೆಯುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಅಪಾಯವನ್ನು ಕಡಿಮೆ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು. ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ನೀವು ಈ ರೀತಿ ಮಾಡಿ.

*ಸೋಪ್ ಮತ್ತು ನೀರು ಹಾಕಿ 20 ಸೆಕೆಂಡು ಕಾಲ ಕೈ ತೊಳೆಯಿರಿ.

* ತೊಳೆಯದೆ ಮುಖ, ಮೂಗು ಅಥವಾ ಬಾಯಿಯನ್ನು ಮುಟ್ಟಲು ಹೋಗಬೇಡಿ.

*ಅನಾರೋಗ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಜನರೊಂದಿಗೆ ಹತ್ತಿರದ ಸಂಪರ್ಕವಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಡಿ.

*ಪದೇ ಪದೇ ಮುಟ್ಟುತ್ತಲಿರುವ ಜಾಗವನ್ನು ಆಗಾಗ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಸ್ವಚ್ಛ ಮಾಡಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಳ್ಳಿ.

*ಕೆಮ್ಮು ಮತ್ತು ಶೀನು ಬಂದ ವೇಳೆ ಟಿಶ್ಯೂ ಅಡ್ಡ ಹಿಡಿಯಿರಿ. ಇದರ ಬಳಿಕ ಟಿಶ್ಯೂ ಬಿಸಾಕಿ, ಕೈಗಳನ್ನು ತೊಳೆಯಿರಿ.

*ಅನಾರೋಗ್ಯವಿದ್ದರೆ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲೇ ಉಳಿಯಿರಿ.

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Writing about COVID-19 in a college admission essay

by: Venkates Swaminathan | Updated: September 14, 2020

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For students applying to college using the CommonApp, there are several different places where students and counselors can address the pandemic’s impact. The different sections have differing goals. You must understand how to use each section for its appropriate use.

The CommonApp COVID-19 question

First, the CommonApp this year has an additional question specifically about COVID-19 :

Community disruptions such as COVID-19 and natural disasters can have deep and long-lasting impacts. If you need it, this space is yours to describe those impacts. Colleges care about the effects on your health and well-being, safety, family circumstances, future plans, and education, including access to reliable technology and quiet study spaces. Please use this space to describe how these events have impacted you.

This question seeks to understand the adversity that students may have had to face due to the pandemic, the move to online education, or the shelter-in-place rules. You don’t have to answer this question if the impact on you wasn’t particularly severe. Some examples of things students should discuss include:

• The student or a family member had COVID-19 or suffered other illnesses due to confinement during the pandemic.
• The candidate had to deal with personal or family issues, such as abusive living situations or other safety concerns
• The student suffered from a lack of internet access and other online learning challenges.
• Students who dealt with problems registering for or taking standardized tests and AP exams.

Jeff Schiffman of the Tulane University admissions office has a blog about this section. He recommends students ask themselves several questions as they go about answering this section:

• Are my experiences different from others’?
• Are there noticeable changes on my transcript?
• Am I aware of my privilege?
• Am I specific? Am I explaining rather than complaining?
• Is this information being included elsewhere on my application?

If you do answer this section, be brief and to-the-point.

Counselor recommendations and school profiles

Second, counselors will, in their counselor forms and school profiles on the CommonApp, address how the school handled the pandemic and how it might have affected students, specifically as it relates to:

• Grading scales and policies
• Graduation requirements
• Instructional methods
• Schedules and course offerings
• Testing requirements
• Your academic calendar
• Other extenuating circumstances

Students don’t have to mention these matters in their application unless something unusual happened.

Writing about COVID-19 in your main essay

Write about your experiences during the pandemic in your main college essay if your experience is personal, relevant, and the most important thing to discuss in your college admission essay. That you had to stay home and study online isn’t sufficient, as millions of other students faced the same situation. But sometimes, it can be appropriate and helpful to write about something related to the pandemic in your essay. For example:

• One student developed a website for a local comic book store. The store might not have survived without the ability for people to order comic books online. The student had a long-standing relationship with the store, and it was an institution that created a community for students who otherwise felt left out.
• One student started a YouTube channel to help other students with academic subjects he was very familiar with and began tutoring others.
• Some students used their extra time that was the result of the stay-at-home orders to take online courses pursuing topics they are genuinely interested in or developing new interests, like a foreign language or music.

Experiences like this can be good topics for the CommonApp essay as long as they reflect something genuinely important about the student. For many students whose lives have been shaped by this pandemic, it can be a critical part of their college application.

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Experts say students should be honest and not limit themselves to merely their experiences with the pandemic.

The global impact of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, means colleges and prospective students alike are in for an admissions cycle like no other. Both face unprecedented challenges and questions as they grapple with their respective futures amid the ongoing fallout of the pandemic.

Colleges must examine applicants without the aid of standardized test scores for many – a factor that prompted many schools to go test-optional for now . Even grades, a significant component of a college application, may be hard to interpret with some high schools adopting pass-fail classes last spring due to the pandemic. Major college admissions factors are suddenly skewed.

"I can't help but think other (admissions) factors are going to matter more," says Ethan Sawyer, founder of the College Essay Guy, a website that offers free and paid essay-writing resources.

College essays and letters of recommendation , Sawyer says, are likely to carry more weight than ever in this admissions cycle. And many essays will likely focus on how the pandemic shaped students' lives throughout an often tumultuous 2020.

But before writing a college essay focused on the coronavirus, students should explore whether it's the best topic for them.

Writing About COVID-19 for a College Application

Much of daily life has been colored by the coronavirus. Virtual learning is the norm at many colleges and high schools, many extracurriculars have vanished and social lives have stalled for students complying with measures to stop the spread of COVID-19.

"For some young people, the pandemic took away what they envisioned as their senior year," says Robert Alexander, dean of admissions, financial aid and enrollment management at the University of Rochester in New York. "Maybe that's a spot on a varsity athletic team or the lead role in the fall play. And it's OK for them to mourn what should have been and what they feel like they lost, but more important is how are they making the most of the opportunities they do have?"

That question, Alexander says, is what colleges want answered if students choose to address COVID-19 in their college essay.

But the question of whether a student should write about the coronavirus is tricky. The answer depends largely on the student.

"In general, I don't think students should write about COVID-19 in their main personal statement for their application," Robin Miller, master college admissions counselor at IvyWise, a college counseling company, wrote in an email.

"Certainly, there may be exceptions to this based on a student's individual experience, but since the personal essay is the main place in the application where the student can really allow their voice to be heard and share insight into who they are as an individual, there are likely many other topics they can choose to write about that are more distinctive and unique than COVID-19," Miller says.

Opinions among admissions experts vary on whether to write about the likely popular topic of the pandemic.

"If your essay communicates something positive, unique, and compelling about you in an interesting and eloquent way, go for it," Carolyn Pippen, principal college admissions counselor at IvyWise, wrote in an email. She adds that students shouldn't be dissuaded from writing about a topic merely because it's common, noting that "topics are bound to repeat, no matter how hard we try to avoid it."

Above all, she urges honesty.

"If your experience within the context of the pandemic has been truly unique, then write about that experience, and the standing out will take care of itself," Pippen says. "If your experience has been generally the same as most other students in your context, then trying to find a unique angle can easily cross the line into exploiting a tragedy, or at least appearing as though you have."

But focusing entirely on the pandemic can limit a student to a single story and narrow who they are in an application, Sawyer says. "There are so many wonderful possibilities for what you can say about yourself outside of your experience within the pandemic."

He notes that passions, strengths, career interests and personal identity are among the multitude of essay topic options available to applicants and encourages them to probe their values to help determine the topic that matters most to them – and write about it.

That doesn't mean the pandemic experience has to be ignored if applicants feel the need to write about it.

Writing About Coronavirus in Main and Supplemental Essays

Students can choose to write a full-length college essay on the coronavirus or summarize their experience in a shorter form.

To help students explain how the pandemic affected them, The Common App has added an optional section to address this topic. Applicants have 250 words to describe their pandemic experience and the personal and academic impact of COVID-19.

"That's not a trick question, and there's no right or wrong answer," Alexander says. Colleges want to know, he adds, how students navigated the pandemic, how they prioritized their time, what responsibilities they took on and what they learned along the way.

If students can distill all of the above information into 250 words, there's likely no need to write about it in a full-length college essay, experts say. And applicants whose lives were not heavily altered by the pandemic may even choose to skip the optional COVID-19 question.

"This space is best used to discuss hardship and/or significant challenges that the student and/or the student's family experienced as a result of COVID-19 and how they have responded to those difficulties," Miller notes. Using the section to acknowledge a lack of impact, she adds, "could be perceived as trite and lacking insight, despite the good intentions of the applicant."

To guard against this lack of awareness, Sawyer encourages students to tap someone they trust to review their writing , whether it's the 250-word Common App response or the full-length essay.

Experts tend to agree that the short-form approach to this as an essay topic works better, but there are exceptions. And if a student does have a coronavirus story that he or she feels must be told, Alexander encourages the writer to be authentic in the essay.

"My advice for an essay about COVID-19 is the same as my advice about an essay for any topic – and that is, don't write what you think we want to read or hear," Alexander says. "Write what really changed you and that story that now is yours and yours alone to tell."

Sawyer urges students to ask themselves, "What's the sentence that only I can write?" He also encourages students to remember that the pandemic is only a chapter of their lives and not the whole book.

Miller, who cautions against writing a full-length essay on the coronavirus, says that if students choose to do so they should have a conversation with their high school counselor about whether that's the right move. And if students choose to proceed with COVID-19 as a topic, she says they need to be clear, detailed and insightful about what they learned and how they adapted along the way.

"Approaching the essay in this manner will provide important balance while demonstrating personal growth and vulnerability," Miller says.

Pippen encourages students to remember that they are in an unprecedented time for college admissions.

"It is important to keep in mind with all of these (admission) factors that no colleges have ever had to consider them this way in the selection process, if at all," Pippen says. "They have had very little time to calibrate their evaluations of different application components within their offices, let alone across institutions. This means that colleges will all be handling the admissions process a little bit differently, and their approaches may even evolve over the course of the admissions cycle."

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The world is grappling with an invisible, deadly enemy, trying to understand how to live with the threat posed by a virus . For some writers, the only way forward is to put pen to paper, trying to conceptualize and document what it feels like to continue living as countries are under lockdown and regular life seems to have ground to a halt.

So as the coronavirus pandemic has stretched around the world, it’s sparked a crop of diary entries and essays that describe how life has changed. Novelists, critics, artists, and journalists have put words to the feelings many are experiencing. The result is a first draft of how we’ll someday remember this time, filled with uncertainty and pain and fear as well as small moments of hope and humanity.

At the New York Review of Books, Ali Bhutto writes that in Karachi, Pakistan, the government-imposed curfew due to the virus is “eerily reminiscent of past military clampdowns”:

Beneath the quiet calm lies a sense that society has been unhinged and that the usual rules no longer apply. Small groups of pedestrians look on from the shadows, like an audience watching a spectacle slowly unfolding. People pause on street corners and in the shade of trees, under the watchful gaze of the paramilitary forces and the police.

His essay concludes with the sobering note that “in the minds of many, Covid-19 is just another life-threatening hazard in a city that stumbles from one crisis to another.”

Writing from Chattanooga, novelist Jamie Quatro documents the mixed ways her neighbors have been responding to the threat, and the frustration of conflicting direction, or no direction at all, from local, state, and federal leaders:

Whiplash, trying to keep up with who’s ordering what. We’re already experiencing enough chaos without this back-and-forth. Why didn’t the federal government issue a nationwide shelter-in-place at the get-go, the way other countries did? What happens when one state’s shelter-in-place ends, while others continue? Do states still under quarantine close their borders? We are still one nation, not fifty individual countries. Right?

Award-winning photojournalist Alessio Mamo, quarantined with his partner Marta in Sicily after she tested positive for the virus, accompanies his photographs in the Guardian of their confinement with a reflection on being confined :

The doctors asked me to take a second test, but again I tested negative. Perhaps I’m immune? The days dragged on in my apartment, in black and white, like my photos. Sometimes we tried to smile, imagining that I was asymptomatic, because I was the virus. Our smiles seemed to bring good news. My mother left hospital, but I won’t be able to see her for weeks. Marta started breathing well again, and so did I. I would have liked to photograph my country in the midst of this emergency, the battles that the doctors wage on the frontline, the hospitals pushed to their limits, Italy on its knees fighting an invisible enemy. That enemy, a day in March, knocked on my door instead.

In the New York Times Magazine, deputy editor Jessica Lustig writes with devastating clarity about her family’s life in Brooklyn while her husband battled the virus, weeks before most people began taking the threat seriously:

At the door of the clinic, we stand looking out at two older women chatting outside the doorway, oblivious. Do I wave them away? Call out that they should get far away, go home, wash their hands, stay inside? Instead we just stand there, awkwardly, until they move on. Only then do we step outside to begin the long three-block walk home. I point out the early magnolia, the forsythia. T says he is cold. The untrimmed hairs on his neck, under his beard, are white. The few people walking past us on the sidewalk don’t know that we are visitors from the future. A vision, a premonition, a walking visitation. This will be them: Either T, in the mask, or — if they’re lucky — me, tending to him.

Essayist Leslie Jamison writes in the New York Review of Books about being shut away alone in her New York City apartment with her 2-year-old daughter since she became sick:

The virus. Its sinewy, intimate name. What does it feel like in my body today? Shivering under blankets. A hot itch behind the eyes. Three sweatshirts in the middle of the day. My daughter trying to pull another blanket over my body with her tiny arms. An ache in the muscles that somehow makes it hard to lie still. This loss of taste has become a kind of sensory quarantine. It’s as if the quarantine keeps inching closer and closer to my insides. First I lost the touch of other bodies; then I lost the air; now I’ve lost the taste of bananas. Nothing about any of these losses is particularly unique. I’ve made a schedule so I won’t go insane with the toddler. Five days ago, I wrote Walk/Adventure! on it, next to a cut-out illustration of a tiger—as if we’d see tigers on our walks. It was good to keep possibility alive.

At Literary Hub, novelist Heidi Pitlor writes about the elastic nature of time during her family’s quarantine in Massachusetts:

During a shutdown, the things that mark our days—commuting to work, sending our kids to school, having a drink with friends—vanish and time takes on a flat, seamless quality. Without some self-imposed structure, it’s easy to feel a little untethered. A friend recently posted on Facebook: “For those who have lost track, today is Blursday the fortyteenth of Maprilay.” ... Giving shape to time is especially important now, when the future is so shapeless. We do not know whether the virus will continue to rage for weeks or months or, lord help us, on and off for years. We do not know when we will feel safe again. And so many of us, minus those who are gifted at compartmentalization or denial, remain largely captive to fear. We may stay this way if we do not create at least the illusion of movement in our lives, our long days spent with ourselves or partners or families.

Novelist Lauren Groff writes at the New York Review of Books about trying to escape the prison of her fears while sequestered at home in Gainesville, Florida:

Some people have imaginations sparked only by what they can see; I blame this blinkered empiricism for the parks overwhelmed with people, the bars, until a few nights ago, thickly thronged. My imagination is the opposite. I fear everything invisible to me. From the enclosure of my house, I am afraid of the suffering that isn’t present before me, the people running out of money and food or drowning in the fluid in their lungs, the deaths of health-care workers now growing ill while performing their duties. I fear the federal government, which the right wing has so—intentionally—weakened that not only is it insufficient to help its people, it is actively standing in help’s way. I fear we won’t sufficiently punish the right. I fear leaving the house and spreading the disease. I fear what this time of fear is doing to my children, their imaginations, and their souls.

At ArtForum , Berlin-based critic and writer Kristian Vistrup Madsen reflects on martinis, melancholia, and Finnish artist Jaakko Pallasvuo’s 2018 graphic novel Retreat , in which three young people exile themselves in the woods:

In melancholia, the shape of what is ending, and its temporality, is sprawling and incomprehensible. The ambivalence makes it hard to bear. The world of Retreat is rendered in lush pink and purple watercolors, which dissolve into wild and messy abstractions. In apocalypse, the divisions established in genesis bleed back out. My own Corona-retreat is similarly soft, color-field like, each day a blurred succession of quarantinis, YouTube–yoga, and televized press conferences. As restrictions mount, so does abstraction. For now, I’m still rooting for love to save the world.

At the Paris Review , Matt Levin writes about reading Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves during quarantine:

A retreat, a quarantine, a sickness—they simultaneously distort and clarify, curtail and expand. It is an ideal state in which to read literature with a reputation for difficulty and inaccessibility, those hermetic books shorn of the handholds of conventional plot or characterization or description. A novel like Virginia Woolf’s The Waves is perfect for the state of interiority induced by quarantine—a story of three men and three women, meeting after the death of a mutual friend, told entirely in the overlapping internal monologues of the six, interspersed only with sections of pure, achingly beautiful descriptions of the natural world, a day’s procession and recession of light and waves. The novel is, in my mind’s eye, a perfectly spherical object. It is translucent and shimmering and infinitely fragile, prone to shatter at the slightest disturbance. It is not a book that can be read in snatches on the subway—it demands total absorption. Though it revels in a stark emotional nakedness, the book remains aloof, remote in its own deep self-absorption.

In an essay for the Financial Times, novelist Arundhati Roy writes with anger about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s anemic response to the threat, but also offers a glimmer of hope for the future:

Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.

From Boston, Nora Caplan-Bricker writes in The Point about the strange contraction of space under quarantine, in which a friend in Beirut is as close as the one around the corner in the same city:

It’s a nice illusion—nice to feel like we’re in it together, even if my real world has shrunk to one person, my husband, who sits with his laptop in the other room. It’s nice in the same way as reading those essays that reframe social distancing as solidarity. “We must begin to see the negative space as clearly as the positive, to know what we don’t do is also brilliant and full of love,” the poet Anne Boyer wrote on March 10th, the day that Massachusetts declared a state of emergency. If you squint, you could almost make sense of this quarantine as an effort to flatten, along with the curve, the distinctions we make between our bonds with others. Right now, I care for my neighbor in the same way I demonstrate love for my mother: in all instances, I stay away. And in moments this month, I have loved strangers with an intensity that is new to me. On March 14th, the Saturday night after the end of life as we knew it, I went out with my dog and found the street silent: no lines for restaurants, no children on bicycles, no couples strolling with little cups of ice cream. It had taken the combined will of thousands of people to deliver such a sudden and complete emptiness. I felt so grateful, and so bereft.

And on his own website, musician and artist David Byrne writes about rediscovering the value of working for collective good , saying that “what is happening now is an opportunity to learn how to change our behavior”:

In emergencies, citizens can suddenly cooperate and collaborate. Change can happen. We’re going to need to work together as the effects of climate change ramp up. In order for capitalism to survive in any form, we will have to be a little more socialist. Here is an opportunity for us to see things differently — to see that we really are all connected — and adjust our behavior accordingly. Are we willing to do this? Is this moment an opportunity to see how truly interdependent we all are? To live in a world that is different and better than the one we live in now? We might be too far down the road to test every asymptomatic person, but a change in our mindsets, in how we view our neighbors, could lay the groundwork for the collective action we’ll need to deal with other global crises. The time to see how connected we all are is now.

The portrait these writers paint of a world under quarantine is multifaceted. Our worlds have contracted to the confines of our homes, and yet in some ways we’re more connected than ever to one another. We feel fear and boredom, anger and gratitude, frustration and strange peace. Uncertainty drives us to find metaphors and images that will let us wrap our minds around what is happening.

Yet there’s no single “what” that is happening. Everyone is contending with the pandemic and its effects from different places and in different ways. Reading others’ experiences — even the most frightening ones — can help alleviate the loneliness and dread, a little, and remind us that what we’re going through is both unique and shared by all.

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How to Write About the Impact of the Coronavirus in a College Essay

The global impact of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, means colleges and prospective students alike are in for an admissions cycle like no other. Both face unprecedented challenges and questions as they grapple with their respective futures amid the ongoing fallout of the pandemic.

Colleges must examine applicants without the aid of standardized test scores for many -- a factor that prompted many schools to go test-optional for now . Even grades, a significant component of a college application, may be hard to interpret with some high schools adopting pass-fail classes last spring due to the pandemic. Major college admissions factors are suddenly skewed.

"I can't help but think other (admissions) factors are going to matter more," says Ethan Sawyer, founder of the College Essay Guy, a website that offers free and paid essay-writing resources.

College essays and letters of recommendation , Sawyer says, are likely to carry more weight than ever in this admissions cycle. And many essays will likely focus on how the pandemic shaped students' lives throughout an often tumultuous 2020.

[ Read: How to Write a College Essay. ]

But before writing a college essay focused on the coronavirus, students should explore whether it's the best topic for them.

Writing About COVID-19 for a College Application

Much of daily life has been colored by the coronavirus. Virtual learning is the norm at many colleges and high schools, many extracurriculars have vanished and social lives have stalled for students complying with measures to stop the spread of COVID-19.

"For some young people, the pandemic took away what they envisioned as their senior year," says Robert Alexander, dean of admissions, financial aid and enrollment management at the University of Rochester in New York. "Maybe that's a spot on a varsity athletic team or the lead role in the fall play. And it's OK for them to mourn what should have been and what they feel like they lost, but more important is how are they making the most of the opportunities they do have?"

That question, Alexander says, is what colleges want answered if students choose to address COVID-19 in their college essay.

But the question of whether a student should write about the coronavirus is tricky. The answer depends largely on the student.

"In general, I don't think students should write about COVID-19 in their main personal statement for their application," Robin Miller, master college admissions counselor at IvyWise, a college counseling company, wrote in an email.

"Certainly, there may be exceptions to this based on a student's individual experience, but since the personal essay is the main place in the application where the student can really allow their voice to be heard and share insight into who they are as an individual, there are likely many other topics they can choose to write about that are more distinctive and unique than COVID-19," Miller says.

[ Read: What Colleges Look for: 6 Ways to Stand Out. ]

Opinions among admissions experts vary on whether to write about the likely popular topic of the pandemic.

"If your essay communicates something positive, unique, and compelling about you in an interesting and eloquent way, go for it," Carolyn Pippen, principal college admissions counselor at IvyWise, wrote in an email. She adds that students shouldn't be dissuaded from writing about a topic merely because it's common, noting that "topics are bound to repeat, no matter how hard we try to avoid it."

Above all, she urges honesty.

"If your experience within the context of the pandemic has been truly unique, then write about that experience, and the standing out will take care of itself," Pippen says. "If your experience has been generally the same as most other students in your context, then trying to find a unique angle can easily cross the line into exploiting a tragedy, or at least appearing as though you have."

But focusing entirely on the pandemic can limit a student to a single story and narrow who they are in an application, Sawyer says. "There are so many wonderful possibilities for what you can say about yourself outside of your experience within the pandemic."

He notes that passions, strengths, career interests and personal identity are among the multitude of essay topic options available to applicants and encourages them to probe their values to help determine the topic that matters most to them -- and write about it.

That doesn't mean the pandemic experience has to be ignored if applicants feel the need to write about it.

Writing About Coronavirus in Main and Supplemental Essays

Students can choose to write a full-length college essay on the coronavirus or summarize their experience in a shorter form.

To help students explain how the pandemic affected them, The Common App has added an optional section to address this topic. Applicants have 250 words to describe their pandemic experience and the personal and academic impact of COVID-19.

[ Read: The Common App: Everything You Need to Know. ]

"That's not a trick question, and there's no right or wrong answer," Alexander says. Colleges want to know, he adds, how students navigated the pandemic, how they prioritized their time, what responsibilities they took on and what they learned along the way.

If students can distill all of the above information into 250 words, there's likely no need to write about it in a full-length college essay, experts say. And applicants whose lives were not heavily altered by the pandemic may even choose to skip the optional COVID-19 question.

"This space is best used to discuss hardship and/or significant challenges that the student and/or the student's family experienced as a result of COVID-19 and how they have responded to those difficulties," Miller notes. Using the section to acknowledge a lack of impact, she adds, "could be perceived as trite and lacking insight, despite the good intentions of the applicant."

To guard against this lack of awareness, Sawyer encourages students to tap someone they trust to review their writing , whether it's the 250-word Common App response or the full-length essay.

Experts tend to agree that the short-form approach to this as an essay topic works better, but there are exceptions. And if a student does have a coronavirus story that he or she feels must be told, Alexander encourages the writer to be authentic in the essay.

"My advice for an essay about COVID-19 is the same as my advice about an essay for any topic -- and that is, don't write what you think we want to read or hear," Alexander says. "Write what really changed you and that story that now is yours and yours alone to tell."

Sawyer urges students to ask themselves, "What's the sentence that only I can write?" He also encourages students to remember that the pandemic is only a chapter of their lives and not the whole book.

Miller, who cautions against writing a full-length essay on the coronavirus, says that if students choose to do so they should have a conversation with their high school counselor about whether that's the right move. And if students choose to proceed with COVID-19 as a topic, she says they need to be clear, detailed and insightful about what they learned and how they adapted along the way.

"Approaching the essay in this manner will provide important balance while demonstrating personal growth and vulnerability," Miller says.

Pippen encourages students to remember that they are in an unprecedented time for college admissions.

"It is important to keep in mind with all of these (admission) factors that no colleges have ever had to consider them this way in the selection process, if at all," Pippen says. "They have had very little time to calibrate their evaluations of different application components within their offices, let alone across institutions. This means that colleges will all be handling the admissions process a little bit differently, and their approaches may even evolve over the course of the admissions cycle."

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Explained: Why is Dakshina Kannada Karnataka’s new Covid-19 hotspot?

With 3,553 new cases and 52 deaths since august 10, the district’s covid-19 figures have overtaken that of bengaluru urban..

Dakshina Kannada in Karnataka has been witnessing a surge in Covid-19 cases and fatalities for nearly a fortnight, with the district continuing to outnumber the figures being reported from Bengaluru Urban which has otherwise been recording the highest numbers in the state.

While Dakshina Kannada reported 3,553 new cases and 52 deaths since August 10, Bengaluru Urban reported 3,374 and 40, respectively, during the same period. The Indian Express spoke to the district administration and the health officials in charge of Covid-19 management to pinpoint the reasons behind the shift in trend.

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Students make up nearly 15% of daily new cases

District Health Officer (DHO) Dr Kishore Kumar said students entering the state from neighbouring Kerala constitute nearly 15 per cent of the new cases daily. “Even though their RT-PCR results are negative upon entry, we have been observing that many of them test positive nearly a week after they arrive.”

Dr Kumar, however, ruled out the possibility of a sudden spurt in new cases and fatalities in the district. “We have brought down the test positivity rate (TPR) which was 8-9 per cent last month to 3-3.5 per cent this month. We have also enhanced testing to nearly 11,000, which is a couple of thousands more than the target set by the state authorities,” he said.

Proximity to Kerala

When asked whether the rise in cases can be attributed to the district’s proximity to Kerala which continues to be the country’s Covid-19 hotspot, the DHO said the screening at border check-posts have kept the spread in check. “The TPR has been 10-12 per cent in the neighbouring Kasaragod district in Kerala. Our decision to continue strict checks at the borders have, in a way, kept the situation under control,” he explained.

The district authorities, however, acknowledged that people from Kasaragod travel to Mangaluru for most of their immediate needs, with the city being a hub of education and healthcare. “Mangaluru is indeed the closest city for the residents of Kasaragod as they have to travel double the distance to reach Kannur in their same state otherwise. Nonetheless, non-essential travel has been observed in many cases, forcing the police to send people back,” a senior officer from the district administration said.

When asked about the recent protests being held at the border check-points against the Covid guidelines in force, the officer said, “This is no time to protest but to realise that each citizen can contribute towards containing the pandemic better. Guidelines need to be followed.”

Reluctance by Covid-19 patients to move to CCCs

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai , during his recent visit to Dakshina Kannada, had asked the district administration to ensure that Covid-positive individuals are mandatorily shifted to Covid Care Centres (CCCs) instead of allowing home isolation.

“It is imperative that we classify patients as symptomatic and non-symptomatic and shift them to CCCs to control the spread of the virus. Patients can be allowed to be in home isolation only after they spend the initial 10 days since testing positive at CCCs. This would keep others at home safe,” Bommai had suggested.

DHO Dr Kumar revealed that most patients are reluctant to shift to a CCC. “We have been able to convince more people in the last few days as our staff has been generating more awareness on the fact that they would be attended to by health professionals round-the-clock if they are at a CCC, as opposed to a daily visit if in home isolation. More officials are now travelling daily to the homes of patients for the same and the results have started to show,” he said.

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What does the death audit indicate?

With Dakshina Kannada reporting most Covid-19 fatalities in the state, the district administration claimed that death audits were conducted every alternate day. Officials attributed the rise in death toll to the hesitation shown by some individuals to seek timely medical intervention and to patients who suffer comorbidities but fail to report their symptoms.

“A majority of the fatalities noted here are of people aged above 60. Patients tend to get admitted to a hospital only when things go out of control. Most recent deaths were among patients who came to a hospital only after the oxygen saturation levels fell below 75 per cent. This, along with the comorbid conditions faced by senior citizens, has contributed to the rise in Covid deaths,” the DHO explained.

What measures have been taken to contain further spread?

The Dakshina Kannada district administration has revised its Covid management strategy to ensure that at least four houses around the residence of a positive person is declared a micro-containment zone.

Meanwhile, in anticipation of the non-vaccinated population (aged below 18) being more vulnerable to a possible third wave of the pandemic, paediatric health infrastructure is also being ramped up.

“Each taluk hospital has been equipped with paediatric primary care units. More doctors and other related medical staff have been hired and more people will be added to the workforce as and when required,” Deputy Commissioner ( DC ) K V Rajendra said.

He added that nearly 2,700 beds have been set up in 36 CCCs, and 118 private hospitals and clinics asked to be prepared to manage patients in the event of a sudden peak. “A 13,000-litre medical oxygen plant is being set up at Wenlock District Hospital in addition to a 12,000-litre oxygen plant which is already functioning,” the DC added.

The DHO said vaccination coverage has also been boosted in border areas as an added measure.

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Essay on Covid -19: In a very short amount of time, coronavirus has spread globally. It has had an enormous impact on people's lives, economy, and societies all around the world, affecting every country. Governments have had to take severe measures to try and contain the pandemic. The virus has altered our way of life in many ways, including its effects on our health and our economy. Here are a few sample essays on ‘CoronaVirus’.

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COVID-19 or Corona Virus is a novel coronavirus that was first identified in 2019. It is similar to other coronaviruses, such as SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, but it is more contagious and has caused more severe respiratory illness in people who have been infected. The novel coronavirus became a global pandemic in a very short period of time. It has affected lives, economies and societies across the world, leaving no country untouched. The virus has caused governments to take drastic measures to try and contain it. From health implications to economic and social ramifications, COVID-19 impacted every part of our lives. It has been more than 2 years since the pandemic hit and the world is still recovering from its effects.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the world has been impacted in a number of ways. For one, the global economy has taken a hit as businesses have been forced to close their doors. This has led to widespread job losses and an increase in poverty levels around the world. Additionally, countries have had to impose strict travel restrictions in an attempt to contain the virus, which has resulted in a decrease in tourism and international trade. Furthermore, the pandemic has put immense pressure on healthcare systems globally, as hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients suffering from the virus. Lastly, the outbreak has led to a general feeling of anxiety and uncertainty, as people are fearful of contracting the disease.

My Experience of COVID-19

I still remember how abruptly colleges and schools shut down in March 2020. I was a college student at that time and I was under the impression that everything would go back to normal in a few weeks. I could not have been more wrong. The situation only got worse every week and the government had to impose a lockdown. There were so many restrictions in place. For example, we had to wear face masks whenever we left the house, and we could only go out for essential errands. Restaurants and shops were only allowed to operate at take-out capacity, and many businesses were shut down.

In the current scenario, coronavirus is dominating all aspects of our lives. The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc upon people’s lives, altering the way we live and work in a very short amount of time. It has revolutionised how we think about health care, education, and even social interaction. This virus has had long-term implications on our society, including its impact on mental health, economic stability, and global politics. But we as individuals can help to mitigate these effects by taking personal responsibility to protect themselves and those around them from infection.

Effects of CoronaVirus on Education

The outbreak of coronavirus has had a significant impact on education systems around the world. In China, where the virus originated, all schools and universities were closed for several weeks in an effort to contain the spread of the disease. Many other countries have followed suit, either closing schools altogether or suspending classes for a period of time.

This has resulted in a major disruption to the education of millions of students. Some have been able to continue their studies online, but many have not had access to the internet or have not been able to afford the costs associated with it. This has led to a widening of the digital divide between those who can afford to continue their education online and those who cannot.

The closure of schools has also had a negative impact on the mental health of many students. With no face-to-face contact with friends and teachers, some students have felt isolated and anxious. This has been compounded by the worry and uncertainty surrounding the virus itself.

The situation with coronavirus has improved and schools have been reopened but students are still catching up with the gap of 2 years that the pandemic created. In the meantime, governments and educational institutions are working together to find ways to support students and ensure that they are able to continue their education despite these difficult circumstances.

Effects of CoronaVirus on Economy

The outbreak of the coronavirus has had a significant impact on the global economy. The virus, which originated in China, has spread to over two hundred countries, resulting in widespread panic and a decrease in global trade. As a result of the outbreak, many businesses have been forced to close their doors, leading to a rise in unemployment. In addition, the stock market has taken a severe hit.

Effects of CoronaVirus on Health

The effects that coronavirus has on one's health are still being studied and researched as the virus continues to spread throughout the world. However, some of the potential effects on health that have been observed thus far include respiratory problems, fever, and coughing. In severe cases, pneumonia, kidney failure, and death can occur. It is important for people who think they may have been exposed to the virus to seek medical attention immediately so that they can be treated properly and avoid any serious complications. There is no specific cure or treatment for coronavirus at this time, but there are ways to help ease symptoms and prevent the virus from spreading.

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As a result of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak, daily life has been negatively affected, impacting the worldwide economy. Thousands of individuals have been sickened or died as a result of the outbreak of this disease. When you have the flu or a viral infection, the most common symptoms include fever, cold, coughing up bone fragments, and difficulty breathing, which may progress to pneumonia. It’s important to take major steps like keeping a strict cleaning routine, keeping social distance, and wearing masks, among other things. This virus’s geographic spread is accelerating (Daniel Pg 93). Governments restricted public meetings during the start of the pandemic to prevent the disease from spreading and breaking the exponential distribution curve. In order to avoid the damage caused by this extremely contagious disease, several countries quarantined their citizens. However, this scenario had drastically altered with the discovery of the vaccinations. The research aims to investigate the effect of the Covid-19 epidemic and its impact on the population’s well-being.

There is growing interest in the relationship between social determinants of health and health outcomes. Still, many health care providers and academics have been hesitant to recognize racism as a contributing factor to racial health disparities. Only a few research have examined the health effects of institutional racism, with the majority focusing on interpersonal racial and ethnic prejudice Ciotti et al., Pg 370. The latter comprises historically and culturally connected institutions that are interconnected. Prejudice is being practiced in a variety of contexts as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. In some ways, the outbreak has exposed pre-existing bias and inequity.

Thousands of businesses are in danger of failure. Around 2.3 billion of the world’s 3.3 billion employees are out of work. These workers are especially susceptible since they lack access to social security and adequate health care, and they’ve also given up ownership of productive assets, which makes them highly vulnerable. Many individuals lose their employment as a result of lockdowns, leaving them unable to support their families. People strapped for cash are often forced to reduce their caloric intake while also eating less nutritiously (Fraser et al, Pg 3). The epidemic has had an impact on the whole food chain, revealing vulnerabilities that were previously hidden. Border closures, trade restrictions, and confinement measures have limited farmer access to markets, while agricultural workers have not gathered crops. As a result, the local and global food supply chain has been disrupted, and people now have less access to healthy foods. As a consequence of the epidemic, many individuals have lost their employment, and millions more are now in danger. When breadwinners lose their jobs, become sick, or die, the food and nutrition of millions of people are endangered. Particularly severely hit are the world’s poorest small farmers and indigenous peoples.

Infectious illness outbreaks and epidemics have become worldwide threats due to globalization, urbanization, and environmental change. In developed countries like Europe and North America, surveillance and health systems monitor and manage the spread of infectious illnesses in real-time. Both low- and high-income countries need to improve their public health capacities (Omer et al., Pg 1767). These improvements should be financed using a mix of national and foreign donor money. In order to speed up research and reaction for new illnesses with pandemic potential, a global collaborative effort including governments and commercial companies has been proposed. When working on a vaccine-like COVID-19, cooperation is critical.

The epidemic has had an impact on the whole food chain, revealing vulnerabilities that were previously hidden. Border closures, trade restrictions, and confinement measures have limited farmer access to markets, while agricultural workers have been unable to gather crops. As a result, the local and global food supply chain has been disrupted, and people now have less access to healthy foods (Daniel et al.,Pg 95) . As a consequence of the epidemic, many individuals have lost their employment, and millions more are now in danger. When breadwinners lose their jobs, the food and nutrition of millions of people are endangered. Particularly severely hit are the world’s poorest small farmers and indigenous peoples.

While helping to feed the world’s population, millions of paid and unpaid agricultural laborers suffer from high levels of poverty, hunger, and bad health, as well as a lack of safety and labor safeguards, as well as other kinds of abuse at work. Poor people, who have no recourse to social assistance, must work longer and harder, sometimes in hazardous occupations, endangering their families in the process (Daniel Pg 96). When faced with a lack of income, people may turn to hazardous financial activities, including asset liquidation, predatory lending, or child labor, to make ends meet. Because of the dangers they encounter while traveling, working, and living abroad; migrant agricultural laborers are especially vulnerable. They also have a difficult time taking advantage of government assistance programs.

The pandemic also has a significant impact on education. Although many educational institutions across the globe have already made the switch to online learning, the extent to which technology is utilized to improve the quality of distance or online learning varies. This level is dependent on several variables, including the different parties engaged in the execution of this learning format and the incorporation of technology into educational institutions before the time of school closure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. For many years, researchers from all around the globe have worked to determine what variables contribute to effective technology integration in the classroom Ciotti et al., Pg 371. The amount of technology usage and the quality of learning when moving from a classroom to a distant or online format are presumed to be influenced by the same set of variables. Findings from previous research, which sought to determine what affects educational systems ability to integrate technology into teaching, suggest understanding how teachers, students, and technology interact positively in order to achieve positive results in the integration of teaching technology (Honey et al., 2000). Teachers’ views on teaching may affect the chances of successfully incorporating technology into the classroom and making it a part of the learning process.

In conclusion, indeed, Covid 19 pandemic have affected the well being of the people in a significant manner. The economy operation across the globe have been destabilized as most of the people have been rendered jobless while the job operation has been stopped. As most of the people have been rendered jobless the living conditions of the people have also been significantly affected. Besides, the education sector has also been affected as most of the learning institutions prefer the use of online learning which is not effective as compared to the traditional method. With the invention of the vaccines, most of the developed countries have been noted to stabilize slowly, while the developing countries have not been able to vaccinate most of its citizens. However, despite the challenge caused by the pandemic, organizations have been able to adapt the new mode of online trading to be promoted.

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Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?

All vaccines have at least occasional side effects. But people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored.

Shaun Barcavage, 54, a nurse practitioner in New York City, said that ever since his first Covid shot, standing up has sent his heart racing. Credit... Hannah Yoon for The New York Times

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By Apoorva Mandavilli

Apoorva Mandavilli spent more than a year talking to dozens of experts in vaccine science, policymakers and people who said they had experienced serious side effects after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine.

• Published May 3, 2024 Updated May 4, 2024

Within minutes of getting the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, Michelle Zimmerman felt pain racing from her left arm up to her ear and down to her fingertips. Within days, she was unbearably sensitive to light and struggled to remember simple facts.

She was 37, with a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and until then could ride her bicycle 20 miles, teach a dance class and give a lecture on artificial intelligence, all in the same day. Now, more than three years later, she lives with her parents. Eventually diagnosed with brain damage, she cannot work, drive or even stand for long periods of time.

“When I let myself think about the devastation of what this has done to my life, and how much I’ve lost, sometimes it feels even too hard to comprehend,” said Dr. Zimmerman, who believes her injury is due to a contaminated vaccine batch .

The Covid vaccines, a triumph of science and public health, are estimated to have prevented millions of hospitalizations and deaths . Yet even the best vaccines produce rare but serious side effects . And the Covid vaccines have been given to more than 270 million people in the United States, in nearly 677 million doses .

Dr. Zimmerman’s account is among the more harrowing, but thousands of Americans believe they suffered serious side effects following Covid vaccination. As of April, just over 13,000 vaccine-injury compensation claims have been filed with the federal government — but to little avail. Only 19 percent have been reviewed. Only 47 of those were deemed eligible for compensation, and only 12 have been paid out, at an average of about $3,600 .

Some scientists fear that patients with real injuries are being denied help and believe that more needs to be done to clarify the possible risks.

“At least long Covid has been somewhat recognized,” said Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist and vaccine expert at Yale University. But people who say they have post-vaccination injuries are “just completely ignored and dismissed and gaslighted,” she added.

In interviews and email exchanges conducted over several months, federal health officials insisted that serious side effects were extremely rare and that their surveillance efforts were more than sufficient to detect patterns of adverse events.

“Hundreds of millions of people in the United States have safely received Covid vaccines under the most intense safety monitoring in U.S. history,” Jeff Nesbit, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said in an emailed statement.

But in a recent interview, Dr. Janet Woodcock, a longtime leader of the Food and Drug Administration, who retired in February, said she believed that some recipients had experienced uncommon but “serious” and “life-changing” reactions beyond those described by federal agencies.

“I feel bad for those people,” said Dr. Woodcock, who became the F.D.A.’s acting commissioner in January 2021 as the vaccines were rolling out. “I believe their suffering should be acknowledged, that they have real problems, and they should be taken seriously.”

“I’m disappointed in myself,” she added. “I did a lot of things I feel very good about, but this is one of the few things I feel I just didn’t bring it home.”

Federal officials and independent scientists face a number of challenges in identifying potential vaccine side effects.

The nation’s fragmented health care system complicates detection of very rare side effects, a process that depends on an analysis of huge amounts of data. That’s a difficult task when a patient may be tested for Covid at Walgreens, get vaccinated at CVS, go to a local clinic for minor ailments and seek care at a hospital for serious conditions. Each place may rely on different health record systems.

There is no central repository of vaccine recipients, nor of medical records, and no easy to way to pool these data. Reports to the largest federal database of so-called adverse events can be made by anyone, about anything. It’s not even clear what officials should be looking for.

“I mean, you’re not going to find ‘brain fog’ in the medical record or claims data, and so then you’re not going to find” a signal that it may be linked to vaccination, Dr. Woodcock said. If such a side effect is not acknowledged by federal officials, “it’s because it doesn’t have a good research definition,” she added. “It isn’t, like, malevolence on their part.”

The government’s understaffed compensation fund has paid so little because it officially recognizes few side effects for Covid vaccines. And vaccine supporters, including federal officials, worry that even a whisper of possible side effects feeds into misinformation spread by a vitriolic anti-vaccine movement.

‘I’m Not Real’

Patients who believe they experienced serious side effects say they have received little support or acknowledgment.

Shaun Barcavage, 54, a nurse practitioner in New York City who has worked on clinical trials for H.I.V. and Covid, said that ever since his first Covid shot, merely standing up sent his heart racing — a symptom suggestive of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome , a neurological disorder that some studies have linked to both Covid and, much less often, vaccination .

He also experienced stinging pain in his eyes, mouth and genitals, which has abated, and tinnitus, which has not.

“I can’t get the government to help me,” Mr. Barcavage said of his fruitless pleas to federal agencies and elected representatives. “I am told I’m not real. I’m told I’m rare. I’m told I’m coincidence.”

Renee France, 49, a physical therapist in Seattle, developed Bell’s palsy — a form of facial paralysis, usually temporary — and a dramatic rash that neatly bisected her face. Bell’s palsy is a known side effect of other vaccines, and it has been linked to Covid vaccination in some studies.

But Dr. France said doctors were dismissive of any connection to the Covid vaccines. The rash, a bout of shingles, debilitated her for three weeks, so Dr. France reported it to federal databases twice.

“I thought for sure someone would reach out, but no one ever did,” she said.

Similar sentiments were echoed in interviews, conducted over more than a year, with 30 people who said they had been harmed by Covid shots. They described a variety of symptoms following vaccination, some neurological, some autoimmune, some cardiovascular.

All said they had been turned away by physicians, told their symptoms were psychosomatic, or labeled anti-vaccine by family and friends — despite the fact that they supported vaccines.

Even leading experts in vaccine science have run up against disbelief and ambivalence.

Dr. Gregory Poland, 68, editor in chief of the journal Vaccine, said that a loud whooshing sound in his ears had accompanied every moment since his first shot, but that his entreaties to colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to explore the phenomenon, tinnitus, had led nowhere.

He received polite responses to his many emails, but “I just don’t get any sense of movement,” he said.

“If they have done studies, those studies should be published,” Dr. Poland added. In despair that he might “never hear silence again,” he has sought solace in meditation and his religious faith.

Dr. Buddy Creech, 50, who led several Covid vaccine trials at Vanderbilt University, said his tinnitus and racing heart lasted about a week after each shot. “It’s very similar to what I experienced during acute Covid, back in March of 2020,” Dr. Creech said.

Research may ultimately find that most reported side effects are unrelated to the vaccine, he acknowledged. Many can be caused by Covid itself.

“Regardless, when our patients experience a side effect that may or may not be related to the vaccine, we owe it to them to investigate that as completely as we can,” Dr. Creech said.

Federal health officials say they do not believe that the Covid vaccines caused the illnesses described by patients like Mr. Barcavage, Dr. Zimmerman and Dr. France. The vaccines may cause transient reactions, such as swelling, fatigue and fever, according to the C.D.C., but the agency has documented only four serious but rare side effects .

Two are associated with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is no longer available in the United States: Guillain-Barré syndrome , a known side effect of other vaccines , including the flu shot; and a blood-clotting disorder.

The C.D.C. also links mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna to heart inflammation, or myocarditis, especially in boys and young men. And the agency warns of anaphylaxis, or severe allergic reaction, which can occur after any vaccination.

Listening for Signals

Agency scientists are monitoring large databases containing medical information on millions of Americans for patterns that might suggest a hitherto unknown side effect of vaccination, said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, director of the C.D.C.’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

“We toe the line by reporting the signals that we think are real signals and reporting them as soon as we identify them as signals,” he said. The agency’s systems for monitoring vaccine safety are “pretty close” to ideal, he said.

Those national surveillance efforts include the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). It is the largest database, but also the least reliable: Reports of side effects can be submitted by anyone and are not vetted, so they may be subject to bias or manipulation.

The system contains roughly one million reports regarding Covid vaccination, the vast majority for mild events, according to the C.D.C.

Federal researchers also comb through databases that combine electronic health records and insurance claims on tens of millions of Americans. The scientists monitor the data for 23 conditions that may occur following Covid vaccination. Officials remain alert to others that may pop up, Dr. Daskalakis said.

But there are gaps, some experts noted. The Covid shots administered at mass vaccination sites were not recorded in insurance claims databases, for example, and medical records in the United States are not centralized.

“It’s harder to see signals when you have so many people, and things are happening in different parts of the country, and they’re not all collected in the same system,” said Rebecca Chandler, a vaccine safety expert at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.

An expert panel convened by the National Academies concluded in April that for the vast majority of side effects, there was not enough data to accept or reject a link.

Asked at a recent congressional hearing whether the nation’s vaccine-safety surveillance was sufficient, Dr. Peter Marks, director of the F.D.A.’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said, “I do believe we could do better.”

In some countries with centralized health care systems, officials have actively sought out reports of serious side effects of Covid vaccines and reached conclusions that U.S. health authorities have not.

In Hong Kong, the government analyzed centralized medical records of patients after vaccination and paid people to come forward with problems. The strategy identified “a lot of mild cases that other countries would not otherwise pick up,” said Ian Wong, a researcher at the University of Hong Kong who led the nation’s vaccine safety efforts.

That included the finding that in rare instances — about seven per million doses — the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine triggered a bout of shingles serious enough to require hospitalization.

The European Medicines Agency has linked the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to facial paralysis, tingling sensations and numbness. The E.M.A. also counts tinnitus as a side effect of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, although the American health agencies do not. There are more than 17,000 reports of tinnitus following Covid vaccination in VAERS.

Are the two linked? It’s not clear. As many as one in four adults has some form of tinnitus. Stress, anxiety, grief and aging can lead to the condition, as can infections like Covid itself and the flu.

There is no test or scan for tinnitus, and scientists cannot easily study it because the inner ear is tiny, delicate and encased in bone, said Dr. Konstantina Stankovic, an otolaryngologist at Stanford University.

Still, an analysis of health records from nearly 2.6 million people in the United States found that about 0.04 percent , or about 1,000, were diagnosed with tinnitus within three weeks of their first mRNA shot. In March, researchers in Australia published a study linking tinnitus and vertigo to the vaccines .

The F.D.A. is monitoring reports of tinnitus, but “at this time, the available evidence does not suggest a causal association with the Covid-19 vaccines,” the agency said in a statement.

Despite surveillance efforts, U.S. officials were not the first to identify a significant Covid vaccine side effect: myocarditis in young people receiving mRNA vaccines. It was Israeli authorities who first raised the alarm in April 2021. Officials in the United States said at the time that they had not seen a link.

On May 22, 2021, news broke that the C.D.C. was investigating a “relatively few” cases of myocarditis. By June 23, the number of myocarditis reports in VAERS had risen to more than 1,200 — a hint that it is important to tell doctors and patients what to look for.

Later analyses showed that the risk for myocarditis and pericarditis, a related condition, is highest after a second dose of an mRNA Covid vaccine in adolescent males aged 12 to 17 years.

In many people, vaccine-related myocarditis is transient. But some patients continue to experience pain, breathlessness and depression, and some show persistent changes on heart scans . The C.D.C. has said there were no confirmed deaths related to myocarditis, but in fact there have been several accounts of deaths reported post-vaccination .

Pervasive Misinformation

The rise of the anti-vaccine movement has made it difficult for scientists, in and out of government, to candidly address potential side effects, some experts said. Much of the narrative on the purported dangers of Covid vaccines is patently false, or at least exaggerated, cooked up by savvy anti-vaccine campaigns.

Questions about Covid vaccine safety are core to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign. Citing debunked theories about altered DNA, Florida’s surgeon general has called for a halt to Covid vaccination in the state.

“The sheer nature of misinformation, the scale of misinformation, is staggering, and anything will be twisted to make it seem like it’s not just a devastating side effect but proof of a massive cover-up,” said Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, a vice dean at Johns Hopkins University.

Among the hundreds of millions of Americans who were immunized for Covid, some number would have had heart attacks or strokes anyway. Some women would have miscarried. How to distinguish those caused by the vaccine from those that are coincidences? The only way to resolve the question is intense research .

But the National Institutes of Health is conducting virtually no studies on Covid vaccine safety, several experts noted. William Murphy, a cancer researcher who worked at the N.I.H. for 12 years, has been prodding federal health officials to initiate these studies since 2021.

The officials each responded with “that very tired mantra: ‘But the virus is worse,’” Dr. Murphy recalled. “Yes, the virus is worse, but that doesn’t obviate doing research to make sure that there may be other options.”

A deeper understanding of possible side effects, and who is at risk for them, could have implications for the design of future vaccines, or may indicate that for some young and healthy people, the benefit of Covid shots may no longer outweigh the risks — as some European countries have determined.

Thorough research might also speed assistance to thousands of Americans who say they were injured.

The federal government has long run the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program , designed to compensate people who suffer injuries after vaccination. Established more than three decades ago, the program sets no limit on the amounts awarded to people found to have been harmed.

But Covid vaccines are not covered by that fund because Congress has not made them subject to the excise tax that pays for it. Some lawmakers have introduced bills to make the change.

Instead, claims regarding Covid vaccines go to the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program . Intended for public health emergencies, this program has narrow criteria to pay out and sets a limit of $50,000, with stringent standards of proof.

It requires applicants to prove within a year of the injury that it was “the direct result” of getting the Covid vaccine, based on “compelling, reliable, valid, medical, and scientific evidence.”

The program had only four staff members at the beginning of the pandemic, and now has 35 people evaluating claims. Still, it has reviewed only a fraction of the 13,000 claims filed, and has paid out only a dozen.

Dr. Ilka Warshawsky, a 58-year-old pathologist, said she lost all hearing in her right ear after a Covid booster shot. But hearing loss is not a recognized side effect of Covid vaccination.

The compensation program for Covid vaccines sets a high bar for proof, she said, yet offers little information on how to meet it: “These adverse events can be debilitating and life-altering, and so it’s very upsetting that they’re not acknowledged or addressed.”

Dr. Zimmerman, the neuroscientist, submitted her application in October 2021 and provided dozens of supporting medical documents. She received a claim number only in January 2023.

In adjudicating her claim for workers’ compensation, Washington State officials accepted that Covid vaccination caused her injury, but she has yet to get a decision from the federal program.

One of her therapists recently told her she might never be able to live independently again.

“That felt like a devastating blow,” Dr. Zimmerman said. “But I’m trying not to lose hope there will someday be a treatment and a way to cover it.”

Apoorva Mandavilli is a reporter focused on science and global health. She was a part of the team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of the pandemic. More about Apoorva Mandavilli

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