what are the symptoms of Cronos almost everyone who gets symptoms gets a fever most of the people
who get a fever get tired a lot of the people who get tired get achy muscles and a lot of
those people also get a cough one of the things that doesn't seem to be very common is sneezing
although some viruses that make you sneeze spread around through the air this one seems to be mostly
coughing so those symptoms you don't need to go to a hospital but if you can't breathe or you're
having difficulty breathing then you do need to get medical help you are all going to be really
really important in slowing down the spread of this disease because every day more than
most grown-ups you spend time in close contact in close quarters with lots of other people you're in
school and so you spread around illnesses much more quickly so you can self monitor meaning if
you do feel poorly stay home even more than normal you should be staying home if you're feeling a bit
poorly especially if you have a temperature or a cough or you feel achy that's very important
the other thing is washing your hands you must help you'd imagine that an illness that spreads
by germs coming out of your mouth that's the way it gets out of your body and the nails that you
catch by getting germs into your mouth maybe a bit into your nose and into your eyes you would think
a mask could really really help in fact the masks you can buy in the chemists the masks you can buy
that you see people wearing on the bus and the Train sometimes the holes in them let the viruses
in and they also let the virus is out so actually the only thing a mask will do is remind you not to
touch your face is there visible way to tell if someone has the virus we've heard stories about
kids from high risk countries China or Italy or whose families are from those countries getting
teased and bullied there is no person you're more likely to catch it off in terms of what they look
like where they come from any one of us could catch it and any one of us could spread it on
so be nice to everybody my question is is the internet making the corona virus more scarier
than it actually is so the internet makes it more scary because there's a spread of a lot of wrong
information or a lot of true information that is fundamentally quite frightening is potentially a
dangerous virus but also the internet allows that scientists to communicate really rapid public
health messaging what do you think aren't that the Internet can make it look like it's just rotavirus
all the time is this terrible terrible terrible thing just with the amount of news going on so
I would say you know keep yourself informed speak to grown-ups about it but if you go if you start
spending all your time reading about coronavirus on the internet I think that can make you a bit
more worried than you need to be Anna ball says I'd go to zero on my hands and I've been washing
them more because I don't want to catch the corona virus but the water is making Magazine mug very
soon is there anything I can do instead it's so interesting isn't it that we think you wash your
hands is such a simple advice that we'll just wash our hands but actually if you start washing your
hands a lot you really notice it's inconvenient and it makes everyone's hand sore but particularly
if you have eczema so it's a lovely question now chris is an infectious disease doctors he deals
with this a lot remember the main reason we're washing our hands is to slow down the spread of
the epidemic and if Shawn is really suffering with eczema on their hands that small number of people
are not really important to slowing down the epidemic so if your hands are cracked and bleeding
and sore I don't think it's gonna be really important for you to keep washing your hands six
times a day ten times a day with soap and water what I would suggest for those people is they can
just wash with water so use less soap they should try moisturizing more often or they may be able
to use a softer soap so Annabelle if you're out there or anyone with eczema do not panic you get
a bit of a free pass on washing your hands and let everyone else do the work who doesn't have
ax man yeah how soon can someone get that goes of the chlorine of those of the day routine so
we can do a test very rapidly and get a very very accurate answer about who has the virus and who
doesn't but most people who get this virus won't have many symptoms that won't have severe symptoms
that don't need to see a doctor they certainly don't need to go to hospital you can stay at
home watch telly get people to look after you self isolate so you try not to infect the other people
in your house and we'll recover without any other help you don't even need a test all the government
precautions enough to deal with the virus in the UK we're very lucky that we have some of the
best experts in the whole world at dealing with epidemic disease and so the government is trying
to strike a balance between going let's slow it down but also this is a thing we can manage and
we don't need to overreact if anyone's thinking yay schools are closing that's wrong because it
stops being schooled on homework and everything becomes homework remember lots of people you know
their parents both work lots of people they're grown-ups they're all working can be really
difficult for people to look after each other so all your grown-ups are going to have to be
supporting each other as well so it can be quite a difficult time if anyone to blame for the current
levels figuring out who's to blame is not usually a very useful thing to do and that's particularly
true here okay no one person is to blame no one culture or country is to blame as a as a species
human beings destroy ecosystems and we often farm animals in quite cruel crowded conditions and
those are the two things that expose us to really dangerous viruses from animals so as a species we
all need to accept some responsibility and wake up to the fact we need to treat our planet better
but there is no one person or culture that we need to blame here why is it so contagious so
the reason this virus is so contagious is because it has evolved to be able to survive outside the
body so some viruses if you cough them onto a surface they just die immediately but this is
a virus that can survive outside the body if you cough it onto the table it will stay it
will survive on the table and then it's also able to get into the next person's body through their
mouth and their lungs so it can travel in the air it can travel from saliva on surfaces it survives
outside the body and all of us are vulnerable to it because this is a virus that none of us have
ever met before this hand sanitizer really worked to prevent the corona virus some hand sanitizers
work pretty well you have to let them dry a lot of them don't all that well and nothing is as good as
soap and water and washing for 20 seconds while you sing happy birthday to yourself my question
is if you did not die from the corona virus how long would it take you to recover so we don't
know that information flow form but it seems like a few weeks on average something like that
people people can be very ill for a few weeks and then they gradually get better well now that you
and doctors aren't have explained to us what is actually happening like I'm more relieved and not
in much of a panic because before what I think I hope you have all found what's on and I found this
the more you know the better you feel knowledge is power and even when you find out things about this
virus that might feel frightening actually you still feel better so it's not a thing you should
panic about it's a thing you can worry about but the more you know the less worried you'll be