Page 43 - Plasticos_Voulme_05
P. 43
V O L 5 2020 I S S U E
The world of healthcare is navigating through impact, but it is important that we strengthen
unchartered territories. COVID-19 outbreak has our healthcare system and prioritize the
stressed and broken even the best healthcare major funds allocation by the governments
systems of the world. As seen in two preceding in the long term by investing more in PPEs,
instances of emergence of Coronavirus disease medicines, ventilators and basic infrastructure.
in past two decades – SARS (2002) and MERS
(2012), the COVID-19 outbreak has posed In Hindi, there is a saying ‘Jaan hai toh jahaan
some serious challenges for the public health, hai’, which means that life is the most essential
research and medical communities. Let’s try to asset of one’s existence, rest is all secondary.
breakdown and focus on this unprecedented
situation. PATIENT ZERO
RISING NUMBERS Speculation is that the first case was in
Wuhan’s live animal sea food market. However,
We all must have heard the loud statement according to a study by LANCET, the first case
that President Trump made few days back was a man who did not have any connection
about the possible number of deaths in the with the sea food market. He developed
USA. 1,00,000 to 2,00,000 were conservative symptoms on December 1st, 2019 while the
estimates considering his administration is Chinese authorities reported their first case
able to cope up with the rising numbers of on December 8th, 2019. There is a possibility
COVID-19 patients. But in these uncertain that early hints of mild cases may have been
times, is it right to give these predictions? missed as authorities were only focusing on
patients with more severe presentation like
Various models have been suggested by the pneumonia.
Big 4 of the consulting firms, but no one can
actually predict the numbers, as they depend So far genetic analysis has not been able to
on various factors: Immunity, Ventilators, pinpoint the wet market at Wuhan as the
Administration, Lockdown and Testing. It only ground zero for the pandemic. Even though it
shows that it is difficult to predict the actual seems that the scale of the disease has reached
its epitome, it is still vital to ascertain the facts
to help us to prevent another epidemic.
CORONA VIRUS:
AN UNPRECEDENTED
CRISIS
DR. ANMOL CHUGH
Founder editor
PLASTICOS
42 43
