Same with that doctor.
I wanna go ahead and ask you here in English.
I want to start with the viewer question
or received and this one comes from
Jim who asks how COVID-19 compares
to the flu and ammonia and pneumonia.
What are your thoughts on that?
Yeah, and thank you Jim for that question
and I would like to start by saying that on
Saturday we were vaccinating and Westwood.
We vaccinated close to 45 people on the event
that was celebrating the Cinco de Mayo.
So we were vaccinating there and on Sunday
morning they woke up feeling terrible.
I was had body aches a little bit of
sore throat congestion and the first
thing that came to my mind is oh,
I caught COVID now and I think that
this is something that happens to
a lot of us in this in these days
that any kind of upper respiratory.
Symptoms we try to to relate them to COVID
because as these are are is a reaction of
our body to a foreign object or foreign.
Being as as a bacterial or as a virus,
we will have the same symptoms
on our nose or throat.
Our lungs and the immune response will give
the same size signs and symptoms on our body,
so we will feel all of this.
These things at the same time,
so I wrote a list of six or seven questions
that we should try to ask to try to find
out if this is cobit or something else,
so maybe. I'll try to answer the question by
saying answer these questions to yourself.
Number one. What is your temperature?
So if you have a high fever you can
have or the flu or strep throat,
the ammonia or COVID,
but the common cold will usually
not produce fever.
Just remember that COVID-19.
The fever will take some days to start.
You start to feel bad
before you have a fever,
but if you were down in there,
it's a good idea to get tested.
The second question is are you are you sore?
Are you in pain?
So if you have body aches,
muscle pain, you are fatigue,
maybe you're falling on with the COVID-19
and it's a good idea to get tested.
The third question is.
How fast are those symptoms coming?
Remember that COVID symptoms
come in slowly and gradually,
so if you were feeling great
yesterday and you wake up feeling
like if you were run over by a truck.
Then perhaps we're talking about
something else, but not COVID.
Then another question that happens
that we listen to frequently
do have now share vomiting,
because if it's now showing vomiting,
perhaps it's the flu but not the common cold,
and perhaps not COVID-19.
How is your call this next question?
COVID-19 is usually associated
with a dry cough,
whereas the strep throat or
the pneumonia or even the flu,
or coughs that are productive.
They have flem in them,
so if your coffee is dry then
perhaps it's copying.
Get tested if you have a productive
cough after several days of a dry cough,
perhaps now you're developing a
complication of that coveted.
Because you come in the morning,
so it's it would be a good idea
to get tested.
How long has the illness been?
Just remember that COVID is longer than
the flu or longer than the the common cold,
so it's been there for more than 10 days,
or it's getting worse than get tested.
And finally a question that
doctors ask is what are you taking
for this and is it working?
If you usually take some kind
of medication for your cough.
Or for your common cold,
and it's not working,
then it would be a good idea
to get tested too.
Right, so a lot of good ideas there.
Duration cough, the severity of it.
Fatigue Dr kind of switch things up a
little bit and the FDA is now limiting
who can receive the Johnson and Johnson
vaccine due to rare blood clots.
Can you tell us a bit more about
why the FDA is doing this and how
concerned people who have gotten Johnson
Johnson's actually vaccine should be?
Yes, thank you for the question.
The first time that we heard about
this was April 10 in the night.
Last year it was. In the night,
and I remember precisely because
we had a clinic in Longmont where
we applied for it and 600 Johnson
and Johnson vaccine that day,
and then in the night we saw it on the
news and on the next morning we had to
get all of these phone calls before
Johnson and Johnson reported this.
This side effect was reported in
England with the OR in Europe with
the AstraZeneca vaccine that also
produces this and this complication.
Can also happen in people who get
COVID despite whatever vaccine in
their game the virus can induce this.
So what they're getting is
something that's called thrombosis.
With thrombocytopenia,
this means that their platelets
are being recruited to.
To produce, uh, blood clots.
So when you measure the amount of
platelets and blood, they're down.
They're in low counts because
they're being used to generate.
Flights around the body.
This is a very rare occurrence that happens.
It's it's happened in 60 people.
60 people have had this complication
out of close to 18 million.
Johnson and Johnson vaccines
that have been applied,
and unfortunately there's
nine deaths reported.
Also with this circumstance.
So what the FDA says is that if
you're 18 or older.
And this is.
The only vaccine that is available for you,
or if you have a.
Some kind of a medical contraindication
to receive another type of vaccine.
Maybe this is the best
chance that you have now.
People who receive the vaccine in the past.
Will not develop this in the future.
I mean this is something
that happens in the first,
maybe two or three weeks after
the vaccine is not going to stay
there and then give you the the
complications years or months later.
OK, well thank you doctor and then I
as always we want to know about the
vaccine clinic that Servicios that
address is organizing for tonight
and for the rest of this week.
Things we for several months now.
We've been here those days in the
afternoon because we've heard that
people are not getting the vaccine
because they don't have time off during
the work day to go and get a vaccine.
So we decided to open an afternoon evening
clinic and we're still here at services
and larassa after 4:00 o'clock for people
who want to come and get a vaccine.
You don't need an appointment,
but it's better if you call so we can.
Be waiting for you and the vaccines are free.
Just come on and get vaccinated after work.
Well, doesn't get easier than that. Doctor.
Thank you so much and if you have a question,
not the English or in Spanish.
For Doctor Ricardo's Fisher,
please email me at christabianchi@9news.com
and I'll make sure it is answered.
So thank you for joining us for this
week's look at COVID-19 and the
Hispanic community here in Colorado.
Methos thanks to everyone and we'll
see you again here next week.
Thanks, doctor.