Quarantine 3/17/2020-5/22/2020

We are caught in the middle of a very contagious virus that has crossed the world and infected many in the population in a matter of weeks albeit days. The pandemic is not a particularly virulent to most who may just be minor carriers of the virus to people that go into severe dyspnea(difficuly breathing), fever, and die. The Coronavirus or SARS causes the disease COVID 19. It began in late 11/2019 in Wuhan China where the Chinese government tried to cover it up and quarantined their population to cause some to die. Some fled to Northern Italy and Spain where the contagion spread then to the West coast of US and to NYC. Since 3/6/2020, the US government has shut down EVERYTHING. Schools, business, including all dentists. The problem with this scenario is that the CURE (quarantining people in their homes) has prevented some from catching the disease. However, it has caused big business to stumble, but, many small businesses are going under. The effect has been disasterous on many small businesses in the United States. $350 billion dollars has already been depleted from a program called the Paycheck protection program that I did not receive any money from. I asked for a $27,000 grant out of this for my business to pay my rent and employees and was denied this money, because Amerant bank said the money from the US Treasury ran out. The virus' spike protein attacks the ACE2 receptor. Depending on how much ACE2 receptors you have and if you are taking hypertension meds, that is going to make MORE ace2 receptors and allow more COVID virus to attack those receptors. Therefore, there are more vulnerabilities. Elderly, sick people, asthmatics and heart disease patients are more prone to much more virulent symptoms.

3. Actually, the initial wave of deaths from the pandemic in the first half of 1918 was relatively low. It was in the second wave, from October through December of that year, that the highest death rates were observed. A third wave in spring of 1919 was more lethal than the first but less so than the second. Scientists now believe that the marked increase in deaths in the second wave was caused by conditions that favored the spread of a deadlier strain. People with mild cases stayed home, but those with severe cases were often crowded together in hospitals and camps, increasing transmission of a more lethal form of the virus.