That's the technical term for the new Corona virus that broke out last December in China and has spread around the world since then.

This disease has sickened tens of thousands of people worldwide and caused several 1000 deaths, though the vast majority of people who catch it will recover once again.

On Monday, the U.

S stock market took and dive.

The Dow Jones industrial average of 30 significant stocks closed down nearly 3000 points, or almost 13%.

That was its worst one day point drop ever, and its worst one day percentage drop since 1987.

U.

S President Donald Trump suggested the Corona virus outbreak in America could last until July or August, and he advised people to avoid groups of more than 10 beyond the markets and the closures, cancellations and quarantines we've reported on side effects or trickle down effects from the virus are now becoming clearer.

One place that's happening is in America's gig economy.

This has been a growing part of the country's economic makeup.

It's when people work based on the gigs or temporary jobs they get.

Uber drivers are excellent examples of this.

The advantage for workers is that they can often work whenever and however long they want.

And some people use these jobs for extra income to make money over the weekend or on their time off from another job.

But the downside for Gig workers is that they're often not considered full time employees by the companies they work for, so they may not get benefits like guaranteed salaries or health care that full time workers often do.

And with more Americans staying home, traveling less and not being able to go to concerts and sporting events, many gigs workers are feeling the pinch.

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The number of cases of Corona virus rises worldwide.

Gig workers like couriers ride share drivers are particularly vulnerable.

First, their health.

We're still trying to get her arms around the exact one spread of this virus, but we've barely seen a number of uber left taxi drivers getting infected for the things we know is dropped.

A contact is an important one meeting with he's released Micro Droplets, people come into contact with those troubles with their hands, and then they're touching face.

That's a motive transmission.

I'm fully aware that I'm Maur exposed to released in most other members of the public simply because I'm spending my entire day with complete strangers in very close proximity without any significant protections.

But it's not just the contact with people that put them uniquely at risk.

Big workers don't get full benefits like full time employees.

Things like subsidized health care paid time off.

That's why even Alvin other members of the group gig Workers Rise are trying to force companies like Lift Uber Door Dash, Amazon and others to give them full benefits.

When people don't get paid sick days, which means they do not take care of themselves, it means they postpone going to the doctors that they end up working rather than staying at home.

If I don't work, I can't pay my bills, period.

Now, months into this international health crisis, the company's air starting to change their policies both uber and lift, now offer payments to drivers who have been diagnosed with Corona buyers or have been quarantined by public health officials.

Uber says that it's already begun to pay out some drivers, but right now we're testing not easily available.

Actually, getting a diagnosis that you have grown a virus can be hard, if not impossible.

And on top of that, the companies haven't said how much the payout drivers who do test positive or quarantine When people, if they get in coffin a roll the windows down in the back a little bit and kind of, you know, circulate the air around the car.

I'm not gonna walk around here with a mask on scaring people on for the rain.

Hank's Corona virus is no scarier than anything else you might be.

Corona is not the only virus that could get you sick from other people.

So I'm concerned about every virus, and I'm very cautious.

And so you know, I have my little 91 proof alcohol, you know, it kills everything.

It kills everything in a chemical lab.

It will kill everything in this car.

Both uber and lift are encouraging their drivers now to disinfect the car's regular.

Both companies are offering supplies for them to do it, but for a gig worker cleaning their cars cost time, time it was money.

I live without safety nets.

As a result, you start your day and you think to yourself Is today going to be the day where something bad happens and my financial life is going to be completely derailed?

Every country facing a new epidemic asks, How big is this going to get and how fast?

When a virus spreads, the number of people who are infected can quickly rise.

This sharp increase can overload the health care system with sick patients who need intensive care.

One solution is to increase the health care system's capacity.

Whether that's by building hospitals training, additional doctors are buying more equipment.

But that takes time, and resource is which countries don't always have during an epidemic.

Another option is to slow the spread of the virus, something experts called flattening the curb.

If you look at the curves of outbreaks, you know they go big peaks and they come down.

What we need to do is flattened that down.

That would have less people infected that would ultimately have less deaths.

This is done by relying on people in the community to use protective measures to help slow the spread of the virus.

What kind of protective measures were talking about the basics.

Washing your hands, sneezing into a tissue or your elbow, avoiding large gatherings and staying home if you're sick?

Closing schools and canceling events can also help slow the transmission of the virus in areas where there's community spread.

The goal is not necessarily to reduce the overall number of cases, although that is often a positive side effect but rather just spread the cases out over an extended period of time.

This means the health care system will be able to treat critical patients as they come in and better cope with the strain that outbreaks place on the medical system.

So even if you're not in a high risk group by practicing simple public health measures, you'll be helping save others lives.

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State When you find a ray, the amount Elijah Mountain in Panola Mountain, Georgia, New Hampshire, North Carolina or Utah, you find all three of these locations.

In the Peach state of Georgia, we've talked a lot about Corona virus patients.

Now we're shifting our focus to animal patients, the kind that are not sick with Corona virus, all three of those mountains we mentioned are less than 20 miles southeast of Atlanta, Georgia, and they're all in the neighborhood of a wildlife rehabilitation center that's been helping injured and orphaned animals since 2006.

Aware is a nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation center, like a hospital for injured an orphan Native wildlife.

We are responsible for feeding them, medicating them.

They might need swim time or other physical therapy to get their strength back.

We just try to get them ready for release back into the wild.

We had about 1300 patients in the last year.

Most animals that have to come into care are coming in from human impact, and the number one reason is being hit by a car.

People throw food waste out the window.

It brings small animals to the side of the road, and then larger animals come and they get it.

Cats as much as we love them, they are kind of hurting the wildlife.

They're responsible for five billion deaths.

Every year we put out rat poison to deal with mice and rats that gets into the food chain and hurt stocks and owls and boxes.

We do occasionally go out and do rescues ourselves.

We usually give the public instructions on how to safely bring animals into us.

The goose showed up in the backyard and its foot was in snarled in fishing line, and it was having trouble walking a loan.

This air propelled net covered the goose.

We picked it up.

They operated on it.

We brought it home the same day and released it back.

It was special because we knew because of us this goose was gonna live.

We can't save them all, but I think it's important that we help those that we can.

I pretended to 10 who let the Penguins out.

The short answer is the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois.

The facility is closed to visitors to help prevent the spread of Corona virus.

So it's resident Rockhopper penguins were allowed to leave their habitat there and explore this one named Wellington made a bee line to the fish.

Yes, they may look bigger than what he normally eats.

No, you can't pick him up and take him home.

We knew we might get a well ing ton of requests from people fishing for answers about paying when they could rock hop on over there and flip Wellington to pet status.

But in Arctic can't just do that, even though we can't enjoy watching his field trip while we stay home from ours.

Hey, sweetie, I'm staying home.

We know the students a Bishop Brady High School or home today.

But we appreciate you watching remotely from in and around Concord, New Hampshire, and we're grateful to all of our viewers worldwide Coral, Jesus for CNN.