*Published and updated as of 3 March 2020. With the first coronavirus (COVID-19) death confirmed in the United States, now is the time to take all of the necessary precautions you can against the virus. This book is a pragmatic, practical guide full of essential precautionary measures for living in the real world, while doing the necessary to avoid contracting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The research and insights are brought to you in rational, non-alarmist writing by Zhang Wei, a Wuhan insider. The most important thing that anyone can do to reduce the spread of novel coronavirus infection and disease among your society is to protect and sanitise yourself, and this book is designed to prepare each of us to manage this appropriately.

It is also designed to help you to recognise the signs when you or someone else become infected, but should under no circumstances be used as a substitute for proper medical diagnosis, assessment, and administration by a professional and licensed medical expert in the situation that signs and symptoms of 2019-nCoV infection or disease occur.

Now that the World Health Organization has declared the outbreak to have reached the "highest level of alert"; it is essential that everyone should begin preparing for the inevitable outbreak in the United States and the United Kingdom. Discussions on how to protect yourself and your family, and how to prepare for the coming epidemic, are written in simple terms for and are easily understood by those without a strong scientific background.

At various parts, this book does delve into more scientific conditions of virology, epidemiology and the biology of novel coronaviral disease and the coronavirus family.

The book also covers the impact on big business and offers some firm suggestions on how to mitigate risks associated with businesses and workplaces. This covers risk management and stability planning for companies.

Finally, an overview of medical countermeasures (drugs, vaccines, antibodies etc.) and the ongoing medical research and development options for this novel coronavirus are considered.

Please take care and follow the WHO's precautionary measures, sanitise, wear your N95 masks and good luck.

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