A woman who has acquired the coronavirus says she appreciates the well wishes of her many friends in North Texas and other parts of the country, but she would appreciate it even more if they would tone down their doom and gloom. Seawright, 55, lives in New York, where she is self-quarantined in her home with her two college-aged sons, who are experiencing the same symptoms she is — fever, body aches and their eyes are sore and irritated. Seawright is an actress and a singer, and she was the first African American Miss Mississippi in Seawright said she was first tested for the flu when she went to an urgent care facility last Thursday.
There are a number of different viruses out there in the world. So, let's just compare it to another type of virus. So, you have the Ebola virus disease, which has a much higher fatality rate associated with it. Morse: I think the official count is now 6, recoveries. But, you know, one of the funny things is that we don't usually report recoveries when someone is discharged from the hospital. So all those recoveries, probably there are many more on the way as well.
A lot of people like to think so. And, of course, a mask gives you a sense of security. But the problem is that people who wear these masks usually don't wear them properly. They've never really been trained. They may not know what kind of mask to wear.
Madad: So, there's two types of masks: One, the simple or surgical mask that you see the general population wearing. And then there's another type of mask that healthcare workers wear. And the one that healthcare workers wear, they have to go through what we call fit testing.
And so to make sure they have a perfect seal. Morse: People who may think they wanna wear an N95 find it very uncomfortable after a while. So even if it's well fit, it's then especially hard to breathe through. Madad: And the mask is really for those that are infected with the actual coronavirus disease, not so much for a healthy individual. So things that actually proven to be effective is washing your hands often, you know, 20 seconds, as well as obviously, if you're sick, staying home.
So, a number of other public health measures that actually are proven to be extremely effective. Madad: That is absolutely not correct. So, what we know about the current coronavirus disease is that it started in Wuhan in China in a wet market where there's a number of different animals there.
So there's a couple of different speculations out there, but not from somebody obviously consuming bat soup. But what we do know, obviously, is that once you actually get the coronavirus disease, the form of transmission is obviously through droplet spread. So coming in contact with somebody that is sick with the coronavirus disease, close contact with them, or, you know, contact with their droplets right shortly after.
Morse: I think it's really highly unlikely, when you consider the time it takes for a package to get from China. Madad: And right now what we do know is that obviously these droplets that can contain the virion, or the virus itself, it may not be able to survive outside the human body for very long. So even if it may, for example, come on a package or a box, depending on how long it's been there, it may not actually be able to survive outside.
But we still don't know. Madad: These types of respiratory viruses, they don't respect borders as we know. It would take two more years to discover HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. Since the beginning, HIV has been seen as a disease that affects primarily marginalized people -- gay men, people who used drugs, sex workers and poor people among others. More than half a million people in the U.
It affected people from all walks of life -- every race, gender, sexual orientation and income level -- but gay and bisexual men were among the hardest hit.
Packer -- who now works at the U. He decided to move to California, where being gay was less taboo. He assumed he would die the same way his friends had. Davis-Clem had a similar story, though he grew up in southern California. At 15 years old, he was kicked out of his house. But within that community, AIDS began to spread. Losing person after person in his life took a toll.
Shortly after his diagnosis, Davis-Clem was enrolled in a clinical trial for treatment at Stanford University. The first treatment for AIDS -- AZT or azidothymidine -- had staggering side effects including intestinal problems, vomiting and damage to the immune system. Even then, the virus mutated to resist AZT, making it ineffective.
Treatments required dozens of pills a week -- sometimes dozens of pills a day -- for years, but now, treatments are a lot simpler. The bleach can also damage cells as the sodium reacts with proteins and fats in a person's tissues in a process called saponification soap , medical doctors reported in in a publication by the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association.
Alarmingly, nearly 4 in 10 American adults in a recent survey reported engaging in dangerous cleaning practices to prevent COVID, such as washing food with bleach, using household disinfecting products on their skin or intentionally inhaling vapors from cleaning products, Live Science previously reported. Consuming certain foods, such as alcohol or garlic, will not protect you from the new coronavirus.
Although alcohol-based hand sanitizers work to disinfect your skin, alcohol does not have this effect on your body when it is ingested, according to WHO. Indeed, heavy use of alcohol can actually weaken your immune system and reduce your body's ability to cope with infectious diseases.
The new coronavirus is spread mainly through respiratory droplets that are expelled when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks, as well as through contaminated surfaces. You can still catch the disease no matter how hot it is — indeed, the virus is spreading even in areas with very hot weather, such as Arizona. Wearing medical masks for long periods may be uncomfortable for some, but it does not cause oxygen deficiency or carbon dioxide CO2 intoxication when too much CO2 builds up in the bloodstream , according to WHO.
The same applies for N95 masks and cloth face coverings, according to Healthline. When you wear a mask, you should make sure it has a snug fit but allows you to breathe normally, WHO says. Written and presented in a style that makes even the most complex subjects interesting and easy to understand, How It Works is enjoyed by readers of all ages. Rachael has been with Live Science since She also holds a B.
Live Science. View Deal. Rachael Rettner. See all comments Regarding 2 " Myth: You're waaaay less likely to get this than the flu Not necessarily. At least in most places, you ARE way more likely to get the flu. Although the coronavirus has a higher R0, it is not circulating widely in the United States and most countries. So people should be taking the flu seriously and get a flu shot. Especially since it could be devastating to get both viruses at the same time.
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