How Does Coronavirus Attack Your Body?
A virus infects your body by entering healthy cells. There, the invader makes copies of itself and multiplies throughout your body.
The new coronavirus latches its spiky surface proteins to receptors on healthy cells, especially those in your lungs.
Specifically, the viral proteins bust into cells through ACE2 receptors. Once inside, the coronavirus hijacks healthy cells and takes command. Eventually, it kills some of the healthy cells.
How Does Coronavirus Move Through Your Body?
COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, starts with droplets from an infected person’s cough, sneeze, or breath. They could be in the air or on a surface that you touch before touching your eyes, nose, or mouth. That gives the virus a passage to the mucous membranes in your throat. Within 2 to 14 days, your immune system may respond with symptoms including:
Fever
A cough
Shortness of breath or trouble breathing
Fatigue
Chills, sometimes with shaking
Body aches
Headache
A sore throat
Congestion or a runny nose
Loss of taste
Loss of smell
Nausea or vomiting
Diarrhea
The virus moves down your respiratory tract. That’s the airway that includes your mouth, nose, throat, and lungs. Your lower airways have more ACE2 receptors than the rest of your respiratory tract. So COVID-19 is more likely to go deeper than viruses like the common cold.
Your lungs might become inflamed, making it tough for you to breathe. This can lead to pneumonia, an infection of the tiny air sacs (called alveoli) inside your lungs where your blood exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide.
If your doctor does a CT scan of your chest, they’ll probably see shadows or patchy areas called “ground-glass opacity.”
For most people, the symptoms end with a cough and a fever. More than 8 in 10 cases are mild. But for some, the infection gets more severe. About 5 to 8 days after symptoms begin, they have shortness of breath (known as dyspnea). Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) begins a few days later.
As you know, Coronavirus has affected our lives in many ways. We stayed at home. We stayed away from our social environment such as the workplace/school. Our routines have totally changed. I have compiled the results of “The Life on Coronavirus Days” survey carried out by Uskudar University.
1-The number of people who were living alone has decreased, young people under the age of 30, have begun to live with their families.
2- Approximately, Domestic violence has increased %22. Because family members have been starting to spend time together much more than usual.
3- In this term, even if couples have been starting to get to know each other better than usual, divorces have started to rise.
4-The research revealed that the outbreak is more than half of the people had changed a habit of eating. Especially between the ages of 26 and 45, it was observed that eating habits changed, which was 62% on average. 35% of people started to eat more and 36% started to eat home cooking. The demand for pastry has increased.
5-News started to be followed mostly from television (82%) and the internet. (52%).
6-Social media usage increased significantly under 25 and over 56.
8- People’s have changed sleep routine. (60%)
9- Teenagers preferred movies and series instead of books and sports.
