Dealing with coronavirus-Important Read

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Dealing with Coronavirus - An important read!
Dealing with Coronavirus - An important read!

Subject: What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic

Dear Colleagues, as some of you may recall, when I was a professor of pathology at the University of California San Diego, I was one of the first molecular virologists in the world to work on coronaviruses (the 1970s). I was the first to demonstrate the number of genes the virus contained. Since then, I have kept up with the coronavirus field and its multiple clinical transfers into the human population (e.g., SARS, MERS), from different animal sources.

The current projections for its expansion in the US are only probable, due to continued insufficient worldwide data, but it is most likely to be widespread in the US by mid to late March and April.

Here is what I have done and the precautions that I take and will take. These are the same precautions I currently use during our influenza seasons, except for the mask and gloves.:

1) NO HANDSHAKING! Use a fist bump, slight bow, elbow bump, etc.
2) Use ONLY your knuckle to touch light switches. elevator buttons, etc.. Lift the gasoline dispenser with a paper towel or use a disposable glove.
3) Open doors with your closed fist or hip - do not grasp the handle with your hand, unless there is no other way to open the door. Especially important on bathroom and post office/commercial doors.
4) Use disinfectant wipes at the stores when they are available, including wiping the handle and child seat in grocery carts.
5) Wash your hands with soap for 10-20 seconds and/or use a greater than 60% alcohol-based hand sanitizer whenever you return home from ANY activity that involves locations where other people have been.
6) Keep a bottle of sanitizer available at each of your home's entrances. AND in your car for use after getting gas or touching other contaminated objects when you can't immediately wash your hands.
7) If possible, cough or sneeze into a disposable tissue and discard. Use your elbow only if you have to. The clothing on your elbow will contain infectious virus that can be passed on for up to a week or more!

What I have stocked in preparation for the pandemic spread to the US:
1) Latex or nitrile latex disposable gloves for use when going shopping, using the gasoline pump, and all other outside activity when you come in contact with contaminated areas.
Note: This virus is spread in large droplets by coughing and sneezing. This means that the air will not infect you! BUT all the surfaces where these droplets land are infectious for about a week on average - everything that is associated with infected people will be contaminated and potentially infectious. The virus is on surfaces and you will not be infected unless your unprotected face is directly coughed or sneezed upon. This virus only has cell receptors for lung cells (it only infects your lungs) The only way for the virus to infect you is through your nose or mouth via your hands or an infected cough or sneeze onto or into your nose or mouth.
2) Stock up now with disposable surgical masks and use them to prevent you from touching your nose and/or mouth (We touch our nose/mouth 90X/day without knowing it!). This is the only way this virus can infect you - it is lung-specific. The mask will not prevent the virus in a direct sneeze from getting into your nose or mouth - it is only to keep you from touching your nose or mouth.
3) Stock up now with hand sanitizers and latex/nitrile gloves (get the appropriate sizes for your family). The hand sanitizers must be alcohol-based and greater than 60% alcohol to be effective.
4) Stock up now with zinc lozenges. These lozenges have been proven to be effective in blocking coronavirus (and most other viruses) from multiplying in your throat and nasopharynx. Use as directed several times each day when you begin to feel ANY "cold-like" symptoms beginning. It is best to lie down and let the lozenge dissolve in the back of your throat and nasopharynx. Cold-Eeze lozenges is one brand available, but there are other brands available.

I, as many others do, hope that this pandemic will be reasonably contained, BUT I personally do not think it will be. Humans have never seen this snake-associated virus before and have no internal defense against it. Tremendous worldwide efforts are being made to understand the molecular and clinical virology of this virus. Unbelievable molecular knowledge about the genomics, structure, and virulence of this virus has already been achieved. BUT, there will be NO drugs or vaccines available this year to protect us or limit the infection within us. Only symptomatic support is available.
I hope these personal thoughts will be helpful during this potentially catastrophic pandemic. You are welcome to share this email. Good luck to all of us!

Jim

James Robb, MD FCAP
 
Our local drug stores are out of hand sanitizer. Lysol and clorox disinfectant towels and spray will also kill the coronavirus germs and still can be found in most stores.
RELH
 
Dear Relh... Our TV's and radio's...Social Media's etc have been reporting the Identical Words.

Relh, You are a "THE" Matriarch on this Forum. What composed you to post such..? Anything else you desire to Post and, I am NOT Bashing you.

Jagerdad
 
One thing is that on TV tonight they word was that CV19 is much more deadly than the flu. I don't even know what to believe.
 
The rate that it spreads is what is scary. From 1 to 1300 in 6 weeks. That’s a rapid spreading virus. At that rate it could reach a billion in a few months.
 
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I highly doubt it went from 1 to 1300. Yes confirmed cases maybe, but there were a lot more than just 1 case when that 1 was confirmed. How many more have mild cases and never get tested because they just think it’s the flu.
 
Look at what’s happening in Italy. Things are bad. Hospitals full, rationing ventilators, etc. Much higher death rate reported there for whatever reason. Can’t really trust anything China says about what happened there...but look at Italy to see what we could be like in a few weeks if we don’t get our crap together.
 
Until there are more recoveries than deaths here, i will remain concerned. I will get more concerned when you are turned away at the hospital and told to go to the tent hospital at the fairgrounds.
 
The virus was first found in China on December 10th. In 3 months it’s gone from 1 to 130,000. And that’s ignoring all who may have had it, carried it, who were never tested.
At that rate, if we all did nothing about it, it would reach 16.9 trillion in another 3 months.

It’s not going to kill everyone, but it could kill numerous people we each know and really disrupt the world.

Its time to take it serious. Bet Kudlow ain’t telling people to buy the dip today. Even Trump will likely end the downplaying of the seriousness.
 
NVBighorn, my daughter in law has been transferred off the ship to Travis Air force base along with her girl friend and girlfriend's mother. They are staying in a motel. According to daughter in law the quarters are very nice. So far she and her girlfriend & girlfriend's mother have shown no symptoms of having coronavirus. They will be there for two weeks before they can come home if they still show no symptoms of the virus.

RELH
 
The Chin-Lees are doing this on purpose....anybody that developed gunpowder 5000 yrs ago when my ancestors were killing crap with a stone and stick...I'm watching their six...Pearl Harbor,Twin Towers, it comes in threes...
 
NVBighorn, my daughter in law has been transferred off the ship to Travis Air force base along with her girl friend and girlfriend's mother. They are staying in a motel. According to daughter in law the quarters are very nice. So far she and her girlfriend & girlfriend's mother have shown no symptoms of having coronavirus. They will be there for two weeks before they can come home if they still show no symptoms of the virus.

RELH

Good to hear. Hope it works out for the best.
 
Panic buying was so bad that Walmart had to open up the third checkout line today.

Monday there was plenty of toilet paper and Clorox wipes on the shelves but there wasn't any today.

I was joking about the third checkout line. Other than the self checkout lines there was still only two.
 
If cases double every week, which seems to be conservative in a population with no immunity, it really is scary to look 3 to 6 months out (pretty much everyone gets it of that holds). The transsmission rate will drop as people beat it and develop immunity and hopefully to taking serious the social distancing, sanitation and other recommendations and possible mandates. But if left unchecked, estimates you see of half the population getting it and over a million deaths in a year in just the USA are not unreasonable. Best to do what we can now and even if we don't completely contain it, buy time for what hopefully will enable a vaccine. Slowing the rate of transmission is the key.
 
Say we do get coronavirus under control and it slows down on summer. It still might flare up again in the fall, when normal flu season starts. There might be travel restrictions, quarantines or who knows what that could make it so you can't travel. I know it's small potatoes compared to the misery this disease causes... But something to think about during application season. This is probably the most uncertain time ever to plan for any trips.
 
Today’s report is about 3,000 cases nationwide, up from 1300 on Wednesday.
I think this social distancing will help a lot, as long as people will take it seriously. It seems like too much, but I think it’s a smart move now rather than just hope it goes away on its own.
It’s interesting to hear the spread of the virus sting Rudy Gobert. He was real close to a lot of other players and coaches for days, yet only two others were infected. So it doesn’t seem like it spreads as easily as what I’d have thought last week.
 
By Dr. Sharkawy On COVID-19:

“I'm a doctor and an Infectious Diseases Specialist. I've been at this for more than 20 years seeing sick patients on a daily basis. I have worked in inner city hospitals and in the poorest slums of Africa. HIV-AIDS, Hepatitis,TB, SARS, Measles, Shingles, Whooping cough, Diphtheria...there is little I haven't been exposed to in my profession. And with notable exception of SARS, very little has left me feeling vulnerable, overwhelmed or downright scared.

I am not scared of Covid-19. I am concerned about the implications of a novel infectious agent that has spread the world over and continues to find new footholds in different soil. I am rightly concerned for the welfare of those who are elderly, in frail health or disenfranchised who stand to suffer mostly, and disproportionately, at the hands of this new scourge. But I am not scared of Covid-19.
What I am scared about is the loss of reason and wave of fear that has induced the masses of society into a spellbinding spiral of panic, stockpiling obscene quantities of anything that could fill a bomb shelter adequately in a post-apocalyptic world. I am scared of the N95 masks that are stolen from hospitals and urgent care clinics where they are actually needed for front line healthcare providers and instead are being donned in airports, malls, and coffee lounges, perpetuating even more fear and suspicion of others. I am scared that our hospitals will be overwhelmed with anyone who thinks they " probably don't have it but may as well get checked out no matter what because you just never know..." and those with heart failure, emphysema, pneumonia and strokes will pay the price for overfilled ER waiting rooms with only so many doctors and nurses to assess.
I am scared that travel restrictions will become so far reaching that weddings will be canceled, graduations missed and family reunions will not materialize. And well, even that big party called the Olympic Games...that could be kyboshed too. Can you even
imagine?
I'm scared those same epidemic fears will limit trade, harm partnerships in multiple sectors, business and otherwise and ultimately culminate in a global recession.
But mostly, I'm scared about what message we are telling our kids when faced with a threat. Instead of reason, rationality, openmindedness and altruism, we are telling them to panic, be fearful, suspicious, reactionary and self-interested.
Covid-19 is nowhere near over. It will be coming to a city, a hospital, a friend, even a family member near you at some point. Expect it. Stop waiting to be surprised further. The fact is the virus itself will not likely do much harm when it arrives. But our own behaviors and "fight for yourself above all else" attitude could prove disastrous.
I implore you all. Temper fear with reason, panic with patience and uncertainty with education. We have an opportunity to learn a great deal about health hygiene and limiting the spread of innumerable transmissible diseases in our society. Let's meet this challenge together in the best spirit of compassion for others, patience, and above all, an unfailing effort to seek truth, facts and knowledge as opposed to conjecture, speculation and catastrophizing.
Facts not fear. Clean hands. Open hearts.
Our children will thank us for it.
Dr. Alexander Roth
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