One of the toughest challenges in dealing with this
pandemic is getting verified medical advice versus the avalanche of information
we’re all inundated with. It is unclear at times what to believe and the news organizations
seem more concerned with reporting statistics or covering the politics of it
all. I’ve been very proud of both of my children in handling this crisis. My
daughter especially because she lives very near ground zero of the epicenter of
the outbreak in the United States – NYC. She’s already been touched by it as a close
friend just down the street and his entire family tested positive.
She is doing all the right things to protect Wingman
and the FBR and yesterday sent out this link to a very informative and informal
video. It was from a respected NYC doctor who works on the 'frontlines' at
ground zero and she thought it was interesting to share. It's quite long (just
under an hour) so she took notes in case I couldn’t listen to all of it. I took
a bit of umbrage that I wouldn’t watch the whole thing, but she does know me. I
ended up watching it to the end. It’s well worth the time and I provide the link
here for you as well as her notes below.
https://vimeo.com/399733860
Notes:
- really spreads through contact, from hands to face
- mostly from sustained contact with people who have
COVID19
- physical contact; not from surface touches but we
do that out of abundance of caution, making sure your hands are clean at all
times - ALL TIMES
- it comes from touching your face!!! start to be
aware of when you touch your face
- use mask so you stop touching your face - you do
not need a medical mask. Wear a mask to train yourself not to touch your face
for now and for the future
- just stay away from people
- Transmission = droplet; hands to face. Not air.
- going to the store is fine: if you are washing
your hands, not touching your face. This doesn't reset your quarantine time if
you're being safe, since this is not airborne.
- transmitted through family most of the time
What do you do if you get this disease?
- if develop a fever and otherwise fine, isolate
yourself from your family immediately (separate room, separate bathroom if
able); if person has to interact, put the mask on the person who is sick
- can start interacting with family after seven
days, but still need to keep a mask on and wash hands constantly to keep them
safe
- Go to hospital only if you're feeling short of
breath. Don't go to the hospital just because you think you have it
"This disease is a wimp. This disease dies as soon
as you disinfect it." – hand sanitizer, washing hands, Lysol wipes - DIES
If you have a mild cold? - still take the
precautions that you have COVID19 for a couple of days, isolate until you're
sure it's not COVID
Danger = people being cavalier when they get
symptoms, and not isolating from family. You can be safe in the same home as
someone with COVID19 as long as you are not touching, sharing, and are
cleaning, etc.
Wipe down groceries? General answer, no - a
reasonable idea to leave delivery to you outside your door, so you don't have
interaction with delivery person. Throw away bags delivered in; groceries
inside are fine.
Go out and come home - need to launder your clothes
after coming home? Absolutely not. For health care workers, yes, because
droplets. If you're a regular person practicing all the rules when you go out,
no. Do not need to launder immediately. (If you're far away from people, you're
not coming home with droplets of covid19)
This is not only a disease of old people. It hits
the entire spectrum of ages.
Just follow the rules: you're going to be fine.
If you feel sick: follow the rules, stay home, and
protect your family.
If you have trouble breathing: go to hospital.
Take acetaminophen, Tylenol when you have a fever.
Not ibuprofen. Do not use ibuprofen.
As a doctor, there have been patients who go on
ventilators and then come off and go home. If you're short of breath, don't be
scared, you'll get taken care of, even if that means a ventilator.
Course of disease:
This is incredibly predictable: social distancing
could be potentially a year.
First, flatten curve. Bring down cases so hospitals
don't get overwhelmed.
Second, people will become relaxed from distancing.
So it will spike again but not as bad.
Third, then it will become under control.
Now that you know the rules, you don't have to be
scared. Learning the rules is empowering. Will go on for 3-6-9 months.
If you're unaware you have the virus in the 14 day incubation
period, you don't have it. There are not a large group of asymptomatic people
spreading the disease. People who have it can spread it 1-2 days before
symptoms appear.
People are immune after they recover. Develop
antibodies. Natural course of disease: enters our circulation, as it mutates,
it's going to get milder. Five years from now you'll get coronavirus and it
will feel like a cold. Seeing more men in the emergency room. (Not sure if
that's because they're not being as cautious or they are more susceptible)
Does sanitizer mess with the pH on your skin
rendering it useless? No. Hand sanitizers work.
Herd immunity will happen, but what the UK is doing
is not correct (being together in crowds at pubs; that's change now) -
overwhelm the hospitals and people will die. in 18 months after flatting the
curve, the disease will get more mild and the immunity will develop.
Having completed my trek through the Marvel universe
I started my next journey a long time ago in galaxy far, far away. Last night
that meant Episode 1 and the Phantom Menace.
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RECURRING
CHARACTERS
BR3
– inbound
granddaughter #3, BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel
- second granddaughter; FBR - First Blog
Reader - first granddaughter, ABFA –
Amazing Best Family Athlete = my daughter in law; Wingman – my son in law; Keene
Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school from my home town of Keene,
NH; Soxfather - my brother in law; Great Aunt - my elder sister; Cantankerous Friend – friend since
grade school who likes to argue about everything, poses as radical leftist to
attract women; Pittsburgh College
Roommate – high school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; Deckzilla – our backyard deck which
grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involved in planning; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two
close friends of my wife – her US sisters, my wife is the 3rd musquetera
(musketeer); Riggins - also known as
the Grandpuppy, son's dog; PanaGals
– female relatives/friends of my wife from Panama; Panamanian/Latin Mafia – inevitable group of Latino friends my wife
accumulates wherever we have lived & their spouses; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia
member, Favorite Panamanian - the
wife (of course); First Friday –
celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Curbside Girls – close friends of my daughter acquired during her
single days in Brooklyn
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