I'm, I'm Dr. Bonnie Henry.
Um, ah oh, my first question
is should we be shaking hands right now?
or should we be doing this instead?
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Matthew:
they're going to get infected and die.
How likely is this going to happen?
Most people who get infected with this,
especially, if you're young and healthy,
have a pretty mild illness.
It's kind of like having a cold,
maybe a little bit more serious than that,
but most of them do just fine and get better quickly.
Matthew: OK.
There's a small portion of people who get more
severe illness and get a pneumonia or an infection
in the lungs and they may end up in hospital.
And here in Canada we have good systems to support people
if they get that sick and there's a very
small percentage of people who've died
and they've mostly been older people.
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Matthew:
and one of the test tubes spilt and some people think
this comes from a restaurant.
Some people think that this just randomly started somehow.
No, it does not come from a Chinese food restaurant.
It does not come from a lab with an accident.
What we know is that it's much more mundane than that.
It probably came from animals that were in this market
that were being used for food.
Um, and it created, it developed a genetic mutation
that allowed it to start infecting humans.
Matthew:
and Chinese people.
What do you think about that?
That makes me feel really sad.
And I think it's about misinformation.
People are afraid and, you know, when they don't know
what's going on
and there's sometimes scary headlines about things,
people take reactions that are sometimes not,
not good reactions and not warranted.
There's no reason, if you healthy, there's no reason
not to go out and go to a Chinese food restaurant,
be in Chinatown, have celebrations,
and the really important message is,
if you're not feeling well, even if you're a little bit
concerned about not feeling well,
then don't go out, stay at home, take care of yourself
and don't pass it on to others.
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Matthew:
of a girl wearing a mask while opening a packet from China.
Do we have to be worried about toys and electronics
that are produced in China?
There's no evidence at all that this virus
can be transmitted through things like that.
And the virus doesn't live for a long period of time
outside of the body.
It needs, it needs your body's cells
and your body's systems to reproduce itself
and it can stay in droplets for, on a surface,
depending on temperatures and things like that
for maybe a couple of hours, but in a package
that's come from China.
No, there's no need for that.
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Matthew:
all over the place. Is this really helpful?
Masks are helpful when you're sick,
because what it does, these respiratory,
the virus can get in our saliva, and when we cough or sneeze
it can get out into the air
and then somebody else breathes it in.
So, if I'm wearing a mask, that keeps my secretions in,
keeps my droplets in.
So, if you're not feeling well,
then wearing a mask can work.
If you think that wearing a mask is going to keep you
from getting sick from somebody else?
Probably not.
Thank you so much and...
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now I understand, it's not that dangerous.