Get the facts on coronavirus-Health and Beauty tips in Doha

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Get the facts on coronavirus

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. Peterkin I'm a family physician in Toronto Canada the coronavirus is a family of viruses that can cause as mild things as just a common cold all the way

up tsars or MERS these are these bad pneumonias that we're 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 allows that virus to attach to certain places so some viruses they have this spike that attaches to your

noses basically you just get a common cold but the SARS virus and this new virus that we're talking about has the spike that allows it to attach to the cells in your lung and when it attaches there it puts in information to make photocopies of itself so it uses our equipment to make more viruses I'm declaring a

public health emergency of international concern over the global outbreak of novel : of a corona virus most of the coronaviruses live in animals in this particular case it was

from Wuhan there was a fish market where they were selling live animals and the thought is 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 meant

that the virus can pass from human to another human just like all viruses it needs to reach a target which is your lung and it has to get there

with your help it has no feeder in no wings so therefore it needs us to move it there so that's why we keep saying don't hang around sneezy people

because foregoing to breathe it in and don't touch your face because that's how the virus isogonal get it the mass are helpful but they’re not necessary because they’re leaky

the ones that you and I buy basically have pockets here so therefore the virus can get in what the mass really do is they stop us from touching our

face if you're sick we tend to mask you so therefore you're not spewing out the viruses to other people sitting around you the true people that have the real

mass or the n95 those are sealed these are for the doctors that may bearing for the patients so in the beginning the corona virus will cause kind of like

flu-like symptoms or a clods people just get the stuffy nose that kind of thing but you'll understand that as soon as that virus starts manufacturing in your lung cells

they ‘reproducing all these copies of the virus all of a sudden now you kill the lung cells so now you can't 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 so currently unfortunately we

don’t have a direct treatment for the corona virus so we don't have a medication that can kill it off and so it’s really supportive so in other words the

patient can't breathe we give them oxygen help them to breathe they can’t drink so therefore we give them fluids to support them their kidneys begin to shut down we

help them with all those things so it's a very supportive process this is a new virus that we've never seen before so our immune system our army are having

a hard time figuring out what to do so usually what we have to does we make something called antibodies so these are things that can grab on to the

spikes that we see on the virus and it’ll get rid of the virus for you and that will actually bring you back to good health so therefore the elderly

may have a worse outcome and of course the young children for the babies their immune system is not so good either so they may not make those antibodies as

well so just remember your hands may be with virus cannot hurt you because it can't get through the skin but the moment I do this now I've brought the

virus right to where it wants to go Solet’s remember not to touch our hands tour face so let's say 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 a health care worker to tell them that potentially

you have it if you’re feeling symptoms and you're going Togo into a facility call ahead ok so whether you're calling the paramedics or whether you're calling the hospital or your doctor just mention that you were on a flight if you don't have any symptoms then what we do is a little bit of a self-quarantine in other words

 we can just keep you away from other people and so you don't go in to 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 a self-confinements or to speak for the let's say 7 to 14 days is the longest incubation time so after

that if you’re feeling well then you don't have anything to worry about did we get the facts right then 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 don’t pass it on to others and if we look after each other in this way this virus will have nowhere to goat needs us to move it it needs us to make copies for it and if we don't help it then the virus will stop so we have the power to do that right now.
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