coronavirus

Coronavirus information hub

Coronavirus disease (covid-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. Moving to virtual instruction will allow the university to decrease the potential health risk to the larger community, and the easier it will be to care for those who may become ill and to manage the eventual impact of this virus. Public health groups, including the u.S. Centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) and who , are monitoring the pandemic and posting updates on their websites.

You can spread the virus when you talk or cough, even if you don't know that you have it or if you aren't showing signs of infection. And a further 33 medicines were banned from export on 24 april 2020, including further respiratory medicines and some drugs that are being trialled for covid-19, such as azithromycin, dexamethasone, ruxolitinib, sarilumab and tocilizumab.

Only use nonmedical coronavirus masks — surgical masks and n95 respirators should be reserved for health care providers. If you are tested for coronavirus, you must notify uhs by emailing communityhealth@ so uhs can begin contact tracing. If you have serious symptoms you will be kept in hospital and isolated from other patients to prevent the virus spreading. Because you can have and spread the virus without knowing it, you should stay home as much as possible.

Please remember, if students, faculty, or staff are tested for coronavirus, in any jurisdiction, they must contact uhs at communityhealth@ no one should wait for results; they should reach out to uhs directly as soon as they are tested. Clinicians should consider testing inpatients with new respiratory symptoms or fever without another cause or worsening of a pre-existing respiratory condition.

Previous coronavirus outbreaks include middle east respiratory syndrome (mers ), first reported in saudi arabia in september 2012, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (sars), identified in southern china in 2003 7 , 8 mers infected around 2,500 people and led to more than 850 deaths while sars infected more than 8,000 people and resulted in nearly 800 deaths 9 , 10 the case fatality rates for these conditions were 35% and 10%, respectively.