Posted on 02/26/2020 7:32:56 PM PST by Brown Deer
Talk of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) is everywhere. Here’s what you should know and do to keep yourself and your loved ones healthy.
The new virus causes respiratory illness in humans, usually 2–14 days after exposure. Illnesses have ranged from mild symptoms to severe, including fever, cough, and shortness of breath. The virus is thought to spread mainly from close contact with an affected person. It spreads in the air, like flu, and through droplets from sneezes and coughs. The droplets can stay suspended in the air and can land on surfaces that are touched by others.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers COVID-19 to be a serious public health threat, but individual risk is dependent upon exposure. For the general American public–those who are unlikely to be exposed to this virus at this time–the immediate health risk is low.
Symptoms of fever, cough and shortness of breath also happen to be symptoms of the common cold and flu. This year, at least 29 million flu cases have been reported with 280,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 deaths from flu. Flu activity most commonly peaks between December and February and can last until May.
What’s important to remember is that anyone can get the flu. But you are more likely to become infected if you:
If you have symptoms of fever, cough, and shortness of breath, please call your local VA medical center and select the option to speak to a nurse before visiting the facility. Tell them about your symptoms and any recent travel.
In addition to calling first, consider using VA’s telehealth and virtual care options. VA’s telehealth providers can evaluate your symptoms and provide a diagnosis and comprehensive care, so you do not have to leave your home or office.
Get VA’s latest updates on the new coronavirus: https://www.publichealth.va.gov/n-coronavirus/index.asp
I’m really getting to hate that word “provider.” Where do these new terms come from? What the hell was wrong with “doctor?”
Achoo!
I haven’t heard a single person in town talking about the coronavirus. Not one.
Any Drs. know if it is true that a runny nose means you don’t have Wuhan Flu?
Seems to me you could get a cold and still have Wuhan
Call my parents?
That ‘provider’ word is as bad as this word substitute ...
They don’t call your wife or husband your spouse anymore ... it’s your ‘partner’
idiot world
Every time I read stuff I can see 20 percent of the audience start feeling their skin crawl, they get warmer, maybe a fever coming on and they start feeling sick and beat down....The only question in their mind is, “Gezzz, did I get that nasty corona cootie?” They ask themselves, was it that strange looking chubby lady at that store who was sneezing like a horse?
Boy, I agree. I thought I was the only one who felt that way about “provider.” I go to the doctor, not a "healthcare provider."
Y2K, New Ice Age, Global Warming, the population bomb, peak oil, Carbon, SARS, H1N1, Swine Flu, Bird flu, assault rifles in private hands, Eggs and bacon, Russia rigging our elections, UFOs chasing F-18s, UFOs over Colorado, etc etc.
Bar none, everything the US Government tells me to worry about is a lie and often a farce.
OTOH, everything they laugh off is an actual danger. Open borders, 2 million moslems pouring in after 9/11, drag queens at the library fondling kids, outsourcing all of our manufacturing to China, wars all across the middle east, kids being encouraged to chop their penises off, Obamacare, an orgy of abortion, post birth abortion, protecting poppy crops in Afghanistan, “common sense” gun control, Red flag laws, giving guns to the cartels, MS13 as refugees.
Ignore the firehose of propaganda. This will be gone in a few weeks. Like all colds and flues are.
Obama?
I’m not going to worry about this until I see bodies lying in the street.
Thus is not an ordinary virus. It seems to me that Han Chinese seem to be more susceptible to it. If so, there may be genetic markers that make the Han especially vulnerable.
When I get the flu, it starts with me becoming dizzy, then headache, then later a cough and them some phlem, but not much sinus drip, unlike a cold which is more uncomfortable.
However, it seems that there is no distinctive symptoms with COVID-19, thus i find your article to be of little help.
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