- A lot of have wondered,
"Isn't COVID just like the flu?"
"I mean, what's the big deal?"
"Is it any different?"
It is much worse.
And I have developed incredible respect for this virus
in the months that I've taken care of people with it.
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Hi, I'm Dr. Manisha Juthani,
I'm an Infectious Diseases Specialist
at Yale School of Medicine
and an associate professor
of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology.
I am very happy to join you today to play Plague Inc.
I've been battling the COVID-19 pandemic
for the last several months,
both on the front lines as a physician
taking care of patients,
but also on a larger scale in our medical center
and in the state, trying to educate people about COVID-19,
protect our staff and students,
and protect the people of Connecticut.
So let's get started playing the game.
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I think the most important thing here,
it is that is very clear COVID-19 is not a game.
It really helps us understand
what COVID-19 is in society today.
So lets see how this game is to be played.
Looks like you can choose different types of pathogens
you know a bacteria, a virus, fungus.
Today we are dealing with viruses with COVID-19
which are often the fastest things that go around.
And particularly around the world.
And let's look here,
there's task force you know,
there are all these different people
that are so important in managing a pandemic
and a global pandemic.
Whether be things related to ethics, bioterrorism,
travel related to planes, or boats.
The economics of the different people
that might be working on this,
you know, the fast response EMTs.
These are the people you see going around in the ambulances
and who are really our first responders
to cases of COVID as they're occurring in real life
in our communities around us.
Looks like we've got you know,
a number of different possibilities, things that we can do
and we wanna fund to investigate an outbreak,
let's learn what's happening here.
Have some government partnerships BZFD-21 is detected.
I think that's the name of our virus.
Our outbreak virus has now been identified in Egypt
and we have to figure out
what kind of virus is this?
How are people getting this virus?
The only way to do that is to have as I said,
boots on the ground.
People they're talking to the people who've been infected
talking to the physicians and other people
that are recognizing a new disease.
We can see here we're looking at
you know, the brain, the lungs, you know,
there are different types of people with pneumonia,
you know, fever so you get an increase in temperature.
Maybe you're coughing.
Okay, sneezing fluid is discharged by sneezing
and you have systemic infection
that means it affects all different body parts
and that many people are asymptomatic.
Well, God doesn't sound familiar.
We know that so many people are either coughing or sneezing
and that's how they transmit to others.
But some people are just talking or singing
or shouting, hanging out with friends
and you don't even know you're infected
and you go ahead and infect a whole lot of other people.
BZFD-21 vaccine ready to research.
Wow.
That's what we need to get out of a pandemic.
A vaccine.
So early on we're doing vaccine development
that's exactly what happened with COVID-19.
Once that viral sequence was identified,
the scientists could get to work to figure out well,
how are we gonna be able to create a vaccine
against that genetic code?
once you know the genetic code,
that's how vaccine development can happen.
You know, now we have to think about you know
formal schemes or all these people who've lost their jobs
and you know, are getting frustrated
with how they're gonna be able to live their lives
and pay their bills and you know,
people are having outbreaks happening going on
at the same time,
so much to digest and try to balance
and look at that authority.
Okay, so Oh, it went down a little bit.
We went from 64-62
going down to 61 you know,
I think people are getting a little frustrated,
they're losing jobs.
When cases are out of control
and health care providers are stressed and strained
and hospital beds are very few and far between.
The only way to stop spread is to lock down.
Oh my God BFZD-21 has mutated.
When they mutate actually making a mistake,
you know, they're replicating so rapidly
and sometimes those mistakes make them less fit
and they kind of die off.
And sometimes they make them stronger.
Vaccine research slow.
No, we don't want that.
And so Central Europe starts a public awareness campaign.
So important actually, I would say public awareness should
have been one of the first things that were happening
not at this point.
So a lot of the research has been completed,
yay, fantastic vaccine on the horizon.
But Iceland quits the Health Organization? WHO?
Why would you do that?
This is the organization
that helps keep the whole world together
and has all the information
coming from all parts of the world,
so you can benefit from the experience of other countries.
Wow thank God vaccine development is complete,
the vaccine is complete, brighter days are on the horizon.
But having it done
doesn't mean that it's deployed around the world.
And it also doesn't mean it's in the arms of people.
We need a cohesive way for people to be able
to get their vaccine in good time.
Wow, we did great and we've won.
People recovered, there are a lot of people healthy,
a lot of people weren't infected.
It's a great game,
I think it's a great way for us to understand
aspects of infectious pathogens
and how we can do our part to save humanity
in the given pandemic
I've heard that there are more people
applying to medical school than ever before.
I'm so happy to hear that.
I'm so happy to hear that they're young people
that are ready to enter the workforce
and take on the next health crisis that we will have
because there will be more
and hopefully we will have learned something
from this one.
I hope we don't have another one like this in our lifetimes,
but we never know.
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