Author(s)

Lihua Fan, Mengshan Hu and Sirui Wang

Corresponding Author

Sirui Wang

ABSTRACT

In recent years community has made progress toward preparing for and mitigating the impacts of pandemics. The 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and other threats posed by severe flu and avian influenza raised the concern of health in the community. To avoid any sudden virus transmission disease, countries begin to prepare plans for risk mitigations to the pandemic. During covid-19(Sars-cov-2), patients have the same symptoms as in SARS 2003. COVID-19, a severe acute respiratory syndrome, is the etiologic agent of the current rapidly growing coronavirus outbreak, originating from Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. This essay will discuss this pandemic in four aspects: risk communication, contact tracing, social distancing, and vaccine & antiviral administration. As many definitions were introduced in parallel, data is also provided visually so that readers can appreciate the evolution of these research data and our understanding. This essay further reviews the development and achievements in these areas.

KEYWORDS

Risk communication, China and other countries contrast, Contact tracing, Isolation and quarantine, Social distancing, Vaccine