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Summary of #coronavirus #COVID19 webinar by @JohnsHopkinsIH yesterday:
🔹 No country is fully prepared for an epidemic
🔹 during Ebola outbreak, 10% of tweets had bad info
🔹 Others were rumors about govt conspiracies
🔹 Others were chaos inducing tweets
1/8
🔹Propaganda blames various different populations, give rise to discrimination
🔹 There is NO CURE for #COVIDー19
🔹 There is no foolproof preventative
🔹 Surgical masks are NOT EFFECTIVE
🔹N95 #Masks are needed by medical staff. We need them to stay healthy. DON'T stockpile
2/8
🔹Community transmission - identify (testing), isolate (hospital), inform (community, health authorities)
🔹Long term care facilities have older, less heathy populations. DON'T visit them if sick. When visiting, use good #hand hygiene
🔹Facility workers should use masks
3/8
"Social distancing" - avoiding sick people, avoiding people when you're sick - not very effective.

Ex: closing schools

Downsides:
🔹 People may congregate elsewhere & spread virus
🔹 Makes it harder for health care workers to go to work - need childcare
4/8 #InfectiousDisease
What SHOULD we do?

Do a better job at hand hygiene!

The CDC has a site about how to best wash your hands / sanitize if soap & water aren't an option. 5/8 #handwashing
cdc.gov/healthywater/h…
Practice good respirstory / cough etiquette!
🔹 Cough into elbow or cover mouth with tissue
🔹 Wash/sanitize hands
6/8
cdc.gov/oralhealth/inf…
Have 2 months worth of prescription meds to avoid going to pharmacy where sick people are.

Above all, DON'T PANIC.

If you think you may have #COVIDー19, call your doctor / hospital so that they can direct you to the correct entrance to prevent contaminating others.
7/8
As this testing becomes more available, we will see an increase in cases that were already in our communities. That's normal. People can be infected and have 0 symptoms.

Most importantly, DO NOT go to the doctor or ER if you don't have symptoms! 8/8 #coronavirus
ANOTHER reason to NOT stockpile the #N95mask if you aren't a healthcare worker in a hospital or clinic.

We NEED our healthcare workers to stay healthy!
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