英语角度战疫情
  What is coronavirus?

    武汉疫情肆虐，无数国人为之忧心忡忡。为了防止疫情扩散，我们减少出门，不去人群聚集的地方，做好自身防护。今天我们来学习一篇美国传染病研究专家Dr. Bill Schaffner有关疫情的访谈。
What is coronavirus?

This is a very large outbreak.

This is Dr. Bill Schaffner, I’m an infectious disease specialist and public health person.

Coronaviruses are a whole family of viruses. For the most part, they don’t cause any real clinical illness except the occasional cold. But you know, from time to time, there’s a rogue coronavirus that develops. We remember SARS 2002, 2003. And then there was another, the MERS virus, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus. This new virus, like those other rogue viruses, probably was first transmitted to humans from animals.

What are the symptoms?
So the symptoms resemble influenza. It’s a respiratory virus initially. And so you have fever, not feeling very well, cough and just feeling poorly.

Is there a cure?
We don’t have a direct anti-coronavirus treatment. We can manage the patients through symptomatic care and supportive care, of course. And many patients already, the Chinese have said, have survived this infection.

How to stop the spread?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have this top of the mind. They have deployed over a hundred people to New York, to San Francisco and Los Angeles. They will be screening people who are arriving from particularly Wuhan, China to see whether they are sick.
So there are laboratories around the world, including our own national institutes of health, that are now, already working on developing a rapid diagnostic test and the other thing they’re doing is starting to work on a vaccine.
The global community is really watching this with great care. And we in the United States definitely are on the alert and ready to respond.

参考词汇：
新型冠状病毒 novel coronavirus
2019新型冠状病毒：“2019-nCoV”
呼吸道疾病 respiratory diseases
报销政策 reimbursement policy
潜伏期 incubation period
密切接触者 close contact
医学观察 medical watch/medical observation
疑似病例 suspected case
确诊病例 confirmed case
不明原因肺炎 unidentified pneumonia
易感人群 susceptible population
人传人 human-to-human transmission
非典 severe acute respiratory syndrome，SARS 肺炎
Pneumonia干咳 dry cough
隔离 under quarantine
呼吸急促 shortness of Breath
呼吸困难 respiratory Distress
病毒变异 virus mutation
病毒株 virus strain
口罩 face mask （N95型口罩：N95 face-mask）
医用外科口罩  Surgical mask
超级传播者 super-spreader
地理角度战疫情
一场发端于2019年12月的疫情把武汉——这个大家都熟知的城市再一次推送到我们眼前，我们一起从地理视角认识武汉的这场疫情，实现我们从生活中学习地理知识，从学科视角认识生活的教学目标。

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