this particular coronavirus known as
kovat 19 is new no one has ever suffered
from it before so there is a lot of
misinformation about this virus so to
separate fact from fiction we asked dr.
oz for some help
he spoke with our Stephen Fabian let's
talk about social distancing what does
that exactly mean social distancing what
is the proper distance well right now
I'm too close to you so we need to be
about six feet away because we both put
our arms out it's roughly that space
okay that's that's the right amount of
distance before that is droplets of
particles will go from my mouth towards
your face naturally when we talk we
sometimes spit a little bit or if I were
to sneeze or cough and so you can't get
away fast thereafter it's 90 miles an
hour when it happens by being further
away the droplets sort of aerosolized
down towards the ground
sporting events and other events that
draw large crowds are being canceled but
what if you have a wedding planned
should you go ahead so I would never
want to cancel a wedding but you might
want to keep a little smaller maybe
you're not jumping up and down on each
other it's to be festive it's hard to do
that I know this time of in our in our
history but it is important that you
continue to make decisions not based in
fear but based in confidence we'll get
through this I gotta say for most events
do you really want to celebrate right
now is it worth delaying a little bit
maybe have a civil ceremony for a
marriage II certainly we could cancel
other more elective events I think by
the time summer comes around it's gonna
be a whole different world it's nice to
have summer weddings dr. oz reiterated
what we now all know the importance of
washing your hands how much of an impact
cannot have at this point and washing me
how important get hand washing be 50
percent protection of virus transmission
some of the studies I've seen if you do
it the right way but that means a couple
things first 20 seconds is important but
it's what you do 3 to 20 seconds that
also matters so get your hands so peeing
water with and then you've got to
actually get the fingertips clean so in
surgery we actually start taught this
you rub your fingers together we call us
a Turkish twist cuz you're twisting when
you do it but by doing that you rub the
fingers into the palms and you clean the
tips then you get the thumb separately
because you got opposing digits and then
finally you gotta grease the palm that
little maneuver which takes about 20
seconds you guys do 5 seconds on each
side allows your fingertips to be clean
so if you touch your eye which we do all
the time
subconsciously unconsciously it doesn't
contaminate you how long do you see this
crisis lasting I think the best
estimates June until the current crisis
passes it is a new normal in some ways
in that we're gonna no longer shake
hands will be fist pumping their elbow
touching and there's some other
behaviors I think we should have changed
anyway like doing is to muscle through a
cold or flu and go expose others to it
but I think this the restrictions you
see now aren't going to be in place for
very long but thankfully we'll know
which ones are important which ones
aren't and by the early summer will be
through this will be okay for a couple
months be want medicines advancing and
then next fall we're gonna have another
version of this that hits us hopefully a
little less aggressively and we'll have
our arms around it but for the rest of
our lives we're going to have a corona
virus in circulation
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