COVID-19 is a potentially lethal respiratory infection caused by a novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 (aka 2019-nCoV), which is in the same family of coronaviruses with SARS.  To be clear, COVID-19 is the disease, and SARS-CoV-2 is the virus.  By comparison, SARS was responsible for infection of 8098 people between 2002-2003, and 774 deaths.  MERS … Continue reading What to do in the time of COVID-19