{"id":101744,"date":"2020-02-01T23:05:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T07:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/understanding-the-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov"},"modified":"2020-02-01T23:05:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T07:05:29","slug":"understanding-the-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/understanding-the-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is Coronavirus <\/strong>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/health-topics\/coronavirus\">World Health Organization[i]<\/a>, Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/mers-cov\/en\/\">Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/csr\/sars\/en\/\">Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) <\/strong>The 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a new strain of coronavirus that was first identified during an investigation into an outbreak in Wuhan, China. It\u2019s important to note that how easily a virus spreads person-to-person can vary. Some viruses are highly contagious, while other viruses are less so. Investigations are ongoing to better understand the transmissibility, severity, and other features associated with 2019-nCoV, but there are indications that person-to-person spread is occurring[ii].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Know the Coronavirus Symptoms<\/strong> According to the CDC, patients with confirmed 2019-nCoV infections have reported mild to severe respiratory illnesses with symptoms including:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Coronavirus According to the World Health Organization[i], Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). What is 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) The 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}