COVID-19

Today starts my COVID-19 essay project. There is so much information out there that I want to condense it down to a long-form post and offer my opinion on all. As I want to publish this later on my Medium account, I will start with a brief introduction and gather my notes below. Comments are heavily welcome but keep in mind this article will stay as a work in progress for quite some time.

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Corona is everywhere in the news. Newspapers, TV shows, blog articles. Everybody is talking and writing about it, it’s my turn now to put even more words out there. The following article is based on my personal experience and information I received. Facts might be false by now or aren’t correct in any way. All statements without guarantee.

Let’s start with a brief introduction of myself. My name is Philipp, I’m a 24-year-old Web developer from Austria. In my free time, I work as a volunteer paramedic at the Austrian Red Cross. Besides my paramedic training, I don’t have any medical experience and I apologize in advance for stuff I’m probably going to mess up.

Virus

Many things can lead to sick or injured humans. Accidents, bacteria, and Viruses to mention the largest three groups. One of the latter the so-called “Corona Virus” is putting huge pressure on worldwide health systems.

Let’s dig a little deeper into the start of this epidemic and pandemic disease.

TODO research some stuff on the history

TODO outbreak in Europe

TODO outbreak in Austria

TODO failure of the European Union

TODO impact on Austria and the European Union