Dr. David Price is a critical care pulmonologist at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. He is in the frontline of the struggle to save lives as he treats patients with Covid-19. He burns with a passion to explain how to protect your family from the virus so you don’t experience what he sees every day.
Clean Hands are How to Protect Your Family from the Virus
David Price says the Covid-19 virus almost exclusively transmits from our hands to our faces. So it enters through our eyes, our noses, or our mouths. We would need a ‘very long, sustained contact’ with someone in an unprotected environment in a very closed room, he says. And we would have to be without any type of mask to stand a chance of contracting the disease through the air.
Therefore the secrets according to him are knowing where your hands are at all times. and to avoid touching your face. A mask protects hand-to-face transmission he says. You don’t have to be scared of the outside world now you know how to protect your family from the virus he told SiLive on March 31, 2020. However, you still need to practice safe distancing by staying six feet apart from other people.
Here’s What You Do If You Think You May Be Ill
If you feel you have a cold take the normal precautions. If you are much better in two days you did not have the influenza, David Price explains. However, if you have aches and pains or feel short of breath you must consult a health professional immediately.
About 10% of people short of breath go to hospital, after which 1% to 3% go on ventilators. The overwhelming majority can breathe normally after 7 to 10 days. Going to hospital is therefore not a death sentence. It’s a safe way to protect your family from the virus David Price explains.
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