In a Zoom call initially addressed to family and friends Dr. David Price offers practical tips to prevent getting COVID-19 with the hope of dispelling a sense of fear or panic. Keep them clean by washing often and using hand sanitizer.
Dr. David Price: “You may hear a little inflection in my voice like I’m emotional. (Insightful information about the virus) DO NOT TOUCH YOUR FACE. If you’re sick or vulnerable, isolate yourself. In order to prevent overwhelming our health care system, go to the hospital only if you’re short of breath. Maintain social distancing. Feel free to use a face mask, primarily to train yourself NOT TO TOUCH YOUR FACE. That is a very, very robust, vigorous, achoo sneeze. There will be plenty of time later for the necessary oversight of what went right, what went wrong, and why — even though we were adequately forewarned — we weren’t better prepared. Last Friday, President Trump signed the $2.2 trillion CARES Act to help workers, provide needed liquidity to businesses, and support health care and cures. In the last portion he answers some fantastic questions. “I am confident that the stuff I can tell you should make you guys feel like you don’t have to be scared and that you can protect your family.”Fox News’ John Roberts asked Dr. Fauci whether “current social distancing guidelines” should need to be revised in light of this new information.Bourouiba warned that droplets from COVID-19 can contaminate surfaces or remain suspended in the air for hours after someone sneezes or coughs, for example. April 1, 2020 COVID-19 Our hospital is almost exclusively a COVID-19 hospital, but we’re learning and we know a lot,” Dr. Price said. The good news is that if a front-line doctor is confident that by practicing good personal hygiene and proper social distancing he won’t catch COVID-19, we should be safer if we follow those guidelines as well. The president, his team, governors, and other public officials throughout America are having to make tough decisions with incomplete information. It’s impossible for them to get it just right.
This is in addition to two previous emergency spending bills totaling more than $112 billion. This financial cost is enormous, but we must also recognize the potential human toll of economic destruction. For now, all of us as individual citizens need to do our part. That starts with taking our situation dead seriously and following Dr. Price’s good advice to do everything we can to avoid contracting or spreading COVID-19. We don’t have to shut down our entire economy to accomplish that. In fact, it is essential that we keep as much of it open and operating as we can. It is entirely appropriate that we identify nonessential businesses that pose a risk of spreading COVID-19, and keep them closed until this passes. Congress passed the CARES Act to help ensure that workers and their employers get the financial support they need to survive so that business can eventually reopen and their employees get back to work. We should also greatly appreciate every American who continues to go to work each day, despite the risk, to make sure our society can continue to function at the level we now so urgently need. As long as many Americans exhibit this kind of courage in dealing with the coronavirus, we can be confident that we will get through this together and united.
Dr. David Price of the Weill Cornell Medical Center said the best way to prevent getting the coronavirus is to avoid touching your face. So when you see somebody do that, get out of the way. That means that all of a sudden, the 6-foot thing doesn’t work. Our mission is to provide first-class surgical services in a safe, welcoming environment; one in which we would be happy to treat our own families.
Imagine the human toll if we shut down the economy indefinitely and unemployment reaches 30% or higher, as the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank now predicts. But does anyone doubt that hospitals and grocers need to remain open? It’s not because I’m scared.