DOCTOR: What You Need To Know About Coronavirus Now | Dr. Amesh Adalja

The Rubin Report

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🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Dr. Amesh Adalja (Infectious Disease MD) about what you need to know about the Coronavirus pandemic. The Coronavirus outbreak is still in its infancy in the US and Dr. Amesh Adalja gives you the information you need to be able to navigate this constantly changing public health crisis. He answers questions like “what is Coronavirus?” He also explains how the coronavirus is different from the flu. He tells you how to spot the confusing coronavirus symptoms and why it’s hard to distinguish from a common cold. Most importantly he provides vital information on Coronavirus prevention and what you need to do to keep you and your loved ones safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Joining me today is an infectious disease expert working on pandemic policy focusing on emerging
0:09.8	infections and preventing bioterror.
0:12.6	Dr. Amish Adalja, welcome to the Ruben report.
0:15.3	Thanks for having me.
0:17.1	All right, thanks for doing this.
0:18.6	We're going to try to do this in about 20, 25 minutes and just pack in as much information
0:23.0	as possible.
0:24.7	So let's just start.
0:25.7	Coronavirus 101.
0:28.2	What is this thing?
0:30.4	So, coronavirus is a large viral family.
0:33.4	They cause about 25% of our common colds and we know about, we knew about six of them.
0:37.8	Four of them are common cold viruses.
0:39.4	Two were more dangerous.
0:40.5	SARS and MERS, which were emerging infectious diseases that had a high mortality rate.
0:44.8	The other ones just cause common cold.
0:47.2	But after SARS and MERS, people got very interested in understanding, are there more severe
0:51.6	coronavirus?
0:52.6	And what happened was in China, it's end of December, they noticed a cluster of individuals
0:57.0	who had unexplained pneumonia and they discovered a new coronavirus.
1:00.5	And because of its linkage with SARS, because they're in the same family, people got very
1:04.1	worried and that's what sparked this whole initial response.
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