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we need to get the facts straight how does this virus work how does it transmit where does it want to go and let's protect ourselves I'm dr. Peter Lynn I'm a family physician in Tri-County the coronavirus is a family of viruses that can cause as mild things as to the common cold all the way up to stars or murderers these are these bad pneumonia is that were talking about and basically what these viruses are they look like a tennis ball with all these spikes sticking out of it and depending on the type of spike it allowed that virus to attach to certain places so some viruses they have this bike that attaches to your nose so basically just get a common cold but the SARS virus and this new virus that were talking about has the spike that allows it to attach to the open your locked and when it attaches their it puts in information to make photocopies of itself so uses our equipment to make more viruses of international concern Global outbreak of Novel coronavirus Coronavirus most of the coronavirus that live in animals in this particular case it was from Wuhan there was a fish market where they were selling live animals thought isn't that the virus was in a live animal then it crossed into a human but then what we found was that people were getting sick in terms of healthcare workers in terms of family members that were looking after them which now that the virus can pass from Human to another huge just like all viruses it needs to reach a Target which is your luck and it has to get there with your help it has no feet or no wings so therefore it needs us to move it there so that's why we keep saying don't hang around Sneezy people pics going to breathe it in and don't touch your face because that's how the virus is going to get it the mass are helpful but they're not necessary because they're leaking the ones that you and I by basically have pocket here so therefore the virus can get in what the mass real you would they stop us from touching her face if you're sick we tend to mask you so therefore you're not spewing out the virus has the other people sitting around to the true people that have the real mass or the end 95 closed or steal these are for the doctors caring for the patient so in the beginning the coronavirus will cause kind of like flu-like symptoms of a cold so people just get the stuff he knows that kind of thing but you'll understand that as soon as the virus starts Manufacturing in your lungs they're producing all these copies of the virus all of a sudden now you kill the lung cells so now you can exchange oxygen and that's why one of the early symptoms is people get very short of breath and they tend to have a difficult time breathing and that's why they end up in hospital Who currently unfortunate we don't have a direct treatment for the coronavirus so we don't have a medication that can kill it off and she was really supportive so that it was a patient has breathed we give them oxygen help them to breed the cat drink so therefore we give them a fluid to support them the kidneys begin to shut down we help them with all those things with a very supportive pro-set this is a new virus that we've never seen before so I'm new system are army for having a hard time figuring out what to do so usually what we have to do is we make something called antibodies four things that can grab onto the spikes that we see on the virus and it will get rid of the virus for you and that will actually bring you back to good health so they're for the elderly may have a worse outcome and of course the young children the babies their immune system is not so good either so they may not make those antibodies as well so just remember your hands maybe with virus virus cannot hurt you because it can't get through the skin for the moment I do this now I've brought the virus right to where it wants to go but let's remember not to touch her hands to her face so let that you think that you might have been on a plane or you might have bumped into somebody that has it what should you do so the first thing is to contact the health care worker to tell them that eventually you have it if you're feeling symptoms and you're going to go into a facility call ahead cuz the weather your calling the paramedics or whether you're calling the hospital or your doctor has mentioned that you were on a flight if you don't have any symptoms than what we do is a little bit of a self pouring in other words we can just keep you away from other and so you don't go into parties don't go with your friends don't go into public transportation so we can contain it very easily by making sure that you do as self-employment sort of speak for the deadly 7 to 14 days is the longest in space I'm so after that if you're feeling well then we don't have anything to worry about do we get the facts right and we don't have to be overly worried but we do the right things so that we don't get the virus ourselves and that we don't. fathers and if we look after each other in this way this virus will have nowhere to go it needs us to move it it needs us to make copies for it and if we don't help it then the buyers. So we have the power to do that right now

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