Health Care in Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID pandemic has adversely affected the progress of society towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) due to the of loss to economic activity, mass unemployment, and poverty. Post-COVID lockdown will be very important to reduce the potential for COVID-19 virus contamination in non-healthcare places like homes, offices, schools, gyms, publicly accessible buildings, various community centers, markets, public transportation, restaurants. It is essential to find out high touch points priority disinfection such as door and window handles, kitchen and food preparation areas, countertops, bathroom surfaces, toilets and taps, touchscreen personal devices, personal computer keyboards, and work surfaces.
So as to recover from the adverse effects further, general precautions will be the key factors in how a person can withstand the attack of Coronavirus? It is the immunity of that person who protects him or her. If a person is protected against illness, that person has good immunity. The immunity of a person depends upon his or her constitution.
Immunity can be active and passive. There are four different commercially available vaccine types, live attenuated, killed/inactivated, subunit & toxoid. It is interesting to know how these different vaccines produce an adaptive immune response. Immunity may be obtained from the development of antibodies in response to exposure to an antigen, such as vaccination or an attack of infectious disease, or from the transmission of antibodies to the mother, such as from the foetus to the placenta or the antiserum. Lifelong immunity is not always provided by either a natural infection (disease) or vaccination. It has so happened, in this Corona 19 pandemic, that it has been proved in case of Indians who had BCG inoculation in the childhood were escaped. The recommended timing of vaccine doses aims to achieve the best immune protection in the period of life.
Antibodies attach to a specific antigen and make it easier for the immune cells to destroy. T-lymphocytes attack antigens directly & help control the immune response. They also release chemicals, known as cytokines which control the entire immune response. Passive immunity can occur naturally, such as when an infant receives a mother's antibodies through the placenta or breast milk, or artificially, such as when a person receives antibodies in the form of an injection
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