thanks for joining us for our second video in the corona virus if this is the
first video you're seeing on that please go back to our first video to get the
introduction about what exactly is this coronavirus of 2019 they're calling it
as it turns out it was discovered on the last day of 2019 December 31st so what
are the symptoms and what's going on with this virus clinically so there was
a great article that was published in The Lancet just recently about this
about 41 patients that came in to the hospital there and were diagnosed with
molecular technique to show that they actually had the virus for the corona
virus in those patients about 41 98 percent of them had fever 76% had
coughed and 55 had shortness of breath what was lacking here was the sneezing
runny nose that type of thing that you would expect to see with a regular virus
those are kind of lacking here what did they find this is a pretty good
indication of if you're sick enough to go to the hospital this is what you
might expect so just so you're aware 100 percent of these were confirmed with
molecular technique of being the 2019 and CoV which is the corona virus so
what was the median age median age was 49 so these are not old people 73% of
them were men and surprisingly only 32% had underlying comorbidities now what's
interesting is that 66% of these people that were hospitalized were exposed to
that specific meat market and as I mentioned there was one family grouping
that seemed to have gone to this meat market that came down with this virus
what's concerning is that it took about eight days to develop the shortness of
breath in those patients who did develop shortness of breath after the illness so
in other words there was an incubation period of maybe about a week or two and
then there was the illness that lasted for eight days and then there was the
shortness of breath and what did that shortness of breath
lead to in a hundred percent of the cases there were signs of pneumonia on
chest CT and 29% of these patients developed a RDS which is a pretty
serious and significant lung disease leading to the last statistic here was
that the mortality was 15% so there's about six patients that died as a result
of this and one of them was a young man that had no comorbidities at all and so
that's actually rather concerning so what about treatments well as it turns
out treatment is just supportive which means if they're dry you give them
fluids which means if they can't breathe you put them on a ventilator but there
is no medication that is going to speed up the effect of the virus to get out of
your system more quickly so in terms of actual specific treatment there is no
treatment there is no medication but there is a drug company called Regeneron
which is looking into a treatment and has some promising developments and
there is no vaccine however the United States NIH is saying that they're
actually developing one shortly so what is actually being done about it
well as of this recording there's about 35 million people in China that are on
lockdown and it's all around this area called Wuhan so what should you do well
I would avoid going to Wuhan at this point number two if you have travel to
Wuhan and you get sick make sure you call a medical professional immediately
and make sure you tell them that you are sick and that you're from Wuhan in that
area and make sure that you take appropriate precautionary measures of
isolation before you go in listen to what their advice is in terms of how to
present yourself so that you don't spread this virus to somebody else this
is a developing story and we'll be giving updates as they come in but at
this point it seems as though the worst is not over yet and the amount of people
that are infected continue to rise to well over 1300 stay tuned for more
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