I'm joined today by a team of experts
from various sectors of the medical profession
to shed some light on the coronavirus pandemic.
There has never been a more pressing time
to find out how to stay safe.
So let's take a look at coronavirus myths and facts.
One: saline, garlic, and sesame oil
prevent coronavirus infection.
Have you guys seen this one?
It's just been all over the place.
I think we can label that as a myth, right?
Absolutely.
That there's no vaccine to cure COVID-19.
That is a fact, correct, but there is one being worked on?
Two or three being worked on, yeah.
The timeline would still be, what, months, a year?
Yeah, months.
Longer?
At least.
Number Three: Face mask will protect from COVID-19.
That's a myth, correct?
Absolutely.
Unless you're a healthcare worker
real up close with a COVID patient,
you are not going to get infected
by what's in the earth, okay?
So a mask protects you from that,
and instead you're gonna get infected
by what's on surfaces, on your hands,
and what you do.
People may notice that we spread the chairs here
as an example of what people mean by social distancing.
We don't have a studio audience in here today
because again, concentration of people,
and if there's someone that is infected,
they could easily spread it.
But before we came in, all of these surfaces
were wiped down with disinfectant.
Everything was cleaned and wiped down.
Same in our control room where everybody's working.
We at least start fresh when we come in.
Now, if you guys were carriers and came in here,
and you've put it on there, then that's on you.
But it was clean when you got here.
That's all I can say.
Not a chance, not a chance.
So for infected people have traveled enough
to spread the outbreak globally.
That's a fact, right?
So Italy has shut down Italy,
but have they really?
I mean, we've got students flying in
from Italy to JFK and they're saying,
we're not really being checked on either end.
And so they're flying into the U.S.
Getting off the airplane and just going out
into wherever they're going into the U.S.
The horse is out of the stable by now.
I kind of feel like it's probably not helpful
to think that we can have any real effect
by kind of focusing on the countries
that have the highest number of cases.
I think it's probably more effective
to just accept we've lost round one against this virus.
So now we're in phase two.
It's here, it's probably not in massive amounts
in many communities yet.
And by practicing all the things
that we've been talking about;
being mindful with your hands being, you know,
considerate, staying a little bit away from people,
maybe reducing social interactions.
We can help slow it.
