542 - 2019 Coronavirus: What you NEED TO KNOW with Professor Peter Openshaw from Imperial College London!

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🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Is the Coronavirus really a threat? I keep seeing headlines. But I don’t know what to think. So I called up Professor Peter Openshaw from Imperial College London. He’s a clinician, and a scientists specializing in lung immunology. In this episode, you’ll learn the science. And find out what we can do to prevent it from getting into our bodies. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin Instagram

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.5	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:13.1	So I was very concerned about obviously this potential very serious virus that is spreading
0:22.3	out of the Wuhan and China, what's called the coronavirus.
0:28.0	And I called up a leading expert, Dr. Peter Opensha, who is a professor of immunology
0:35.4	at Imperial College.
0:36.6	He's been involved in these types of viruses for many, many years and is an expert on them
0:43.5	enough that he's regularly called to comment on them for magazines, television, and so
0:49.5	on.
0:50.5	And I wanted him to break down for me everything about this virus.
0:57.3	You know, what is it, speculation on how it started, how it's transmitted, how contagious
1:03.1	is it, how fatal is it, what we went through some of the conspiracies involved on it.
1:09.8	We did go over a potential worst case scenario, but we were also talking and particularly
1:16.8	we talked kind of after the interview that there was a very, very high chances for an optimistic
1:22.3	scenario.
1:23.3	And I'll explain what I mean here and then we'll go into the interview.
1:27.3	But everybody's throwing out these ratios, like oh, 20,000 people infected, 400 people
1:34.5	died.
1:35.5	The problem is, and so then they say there's a 2% chance if you're infected that you
1:41.1	could die, which is much higher as Dr. Opensha says than the flu or other diseases.
1:48.9	And we also know that it's very infectious, which it's not as fatal apparently as earlier
1:53.9	diseases like SARS that it's very related to, but it is potentially more infectious.
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