Empowering advice on Covid19

[Beendare]

This podcast is being circulated by Kaiser to all of their nurses [my wife is a nurse]

Its really good from a doc- Dr Dave Price at Weil Cornell med center- the largest treatment center in NY treating hundreds of Covid patients daily.

He says; now that we understand it, its empowering to know if I follow these rules....I WILL NOT GET THE VIRUS.

I think its the best commentary with guidelines I've seen. Now lets get on with our lives with some minor changes......
PROTECTING YOUR FAMILY FROM COVID19


EDIT; scroll down here for a summary if you don't want to click the link

 

[MuleDeerMike]

Good info.

 

[AK Troutbum]

Very much informative and encouraging. Thanks for posting!

 

[*zap*]

Thank's Beendare!

 

[Beendare]

Ha, thank my wife......

For those that don't click on links, its a podcast on wesmoss.com

The synopsis- below...but its not near as good as the first 5 minutes or so of the podcast.....

Dr. Price has treated thousands of patients at the Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. It’s critically important for American families to heed his four steps and advice.

This is NOT advice from a TV doctor who spends their entire day in front of the camera. This is advice from a physician on the very front lines who has treated thousands of COVID patients and had direct contact with the disease since the very beginning of the pandemic (now months). All 1,200 beds in his hospital are for COVID patients.

We all know that we should wash our hands and not touch our faces. However, he has a unique perspective as to just how effective certain measures can be in avoiding infection.
His advice is crystal clear and hits home more than any other COVID-19 advice to date.
You can read a quick recap below, but I highly encourage you to watch this video witheveryone in your family.

How do you get the disease?
According to Dr. Price, COVID-19 is in the family of the common cold, but the human body has never experienced it before. To contract the virus, you must have sustained contact with someone who has it with or with someone who is going to get the disease with one to two days and has yet to show symptoms. “Sustained” contact means 15 to 30 minutes with someone in a very closed environment.

“Transmission of the virus is almost exclusively from your hands to your face,” says Dr. Price. “The overwhelming majority of people are getting this by physically touching someone who has this disease or will develop it in the next one to two days, and then touching their face.” The virus travels from your hands to your face, and then into your eyes, nose or mouth.

Dr. Price shows visible emotion when talking about how relieved he is to really understand how transmission works. He feels highly confident that he won’t get COVID-19 because he knows the steps to take to avoid it. Dr. Price says that you, too, don’t need to be scared if you’re smart about protecting yourself.

Dr. Price says, “You will not get this disease if you do the following:”
1. Keep It Clean. Know where your hands are at all times and keep them clean. Carry hand sanitizer with you at all times to make sure you stay sanitized. If you go to your local grocery store, wipe down the cart before you use it.
And do not touch your face. Like, ever. Statistics say we touch our faces sixteen times per hour. Stop it. Be mindful and break the psychological connection between your hands your face completely.

“These two things combined are incredibly powerful and will prevent the transmission of the disease to your family in 99% of cases,” says Dr. Price. To know your hands are clean and to refrain from touching your face will prevent you from catching this disease is liberating. Knowing just how protective these easy things are can assuage much of the fear we all feel now.

2. The Purpose of a Mask. While it’s okay for the general population to wear masks, Dr. Price wants you to know that it does nothing to prevent you from getting the virus. You don’t get it from the air. The upside is that a mask will help train you not to touch your face. Masks are only truly necessary for front-line medical workers who are in close proximity to patients.

3. Social Distancing Works. Keep a space of between three and six feet from other people when you go out into the world. For instance, if you’re in line at the supermarket or the pharmacy waiting to check out, keep that personal space intact. Hey, if New Yorkers can do it, so can we. Folks have been able to go about their business, thanks in large part to social distancing. This practice is the new normal.
4. Shrink Your Social Circle. What does that mean? This point most likely pertains to your extended family and the friends you spend the most time with. Find your isolation group – the set of three or four people, family or friends, and limit close contact to this group. You have to create boundaries. The people who are most at risk are the individuals who are still maintaining large social circles. Being in large groups puts you at higher risk, so reduce your social circle to minimize the chance of catching the virus.

If you live by these rules, you don’t have to be afraid of the people around you. That’s incredibly liberating. Your neighbors, postal workers, food delivery workers and folks you see in the grocery store are not a threat; they’re living through this pandemic just like you are. Armed with this information we can forge a greater sense of solidarity instead of allowing the virus to divide and scare us.

 

[Michiganhunter]

Thank you for this. I have been trying to follow these guidelines for years during flu season and I rarely get sick. But I am way more vigilant now.

 

[SoDaky]

A great reality respite from the doom and gloomers.Just will add I fish with a group of Doctors and I sent it to them.None are on the 'front line' and all thought it was great.An ER Doc and a Radiologist work together and this was going to be shown at a staff meeting this AM.
Thanks again!!!

 

[Elk97]

Thanks, passing this on to - everyone.

 

[Beendare]

We are in a bit of a new world with these crazy viruses.

Seems to me this is going to be standard advice going forward....glad it helped.

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[satchamo]

Thanks for sharing - I've passed it along to family and friends. Very nice to read a no non sense, effective method to fight the spread of this virus. It's so simple it seems almost too easy but when you hear it from an accredited source like this - it really drives the point home.

 

[Austink47]

Good stuff thank you for sharing.

 

[Dustin the wind]

Saw this doctor a couple days ago. My wife is still working, Pharmacist, now she gets to hear me tell her not to ever touch her face at work all the time.