How To Protect Yourself Against the Coronavirus

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The coronavirus outbreak in China is causing panic worldwide. The World Health Organization has declared it a global health emergency and all we hear about are doubling infection rates, massive quarantines, and drugstores running out of masks. In this episode of How To!, we ask Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, former New York Times reporter and author of An American Sickness, how she and her family survived the previous SARS epidemic in Beijing. We also revisit our conversation with Dr. Tom Inglesby, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, about what to do—and what not to do—if the coronavirus becomes a full-blown pandemic and spreads to where you live.

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0:30.3	Despite all efforts, the number of infections keeps rising, with nearly 3,000 new cases
0:36.3	reported in the past 24 hours.
0:39.5	Over the weekend, a Boston student tested positive.
0:42.6	He returned from Wuhan just one day before Logan Airport started screening for the virus.
0:53.2	This is how to, and I'm Charles Duhigg.
0:55.8	As you might be able to hear, I'm a little sick at the moment, which, given the headlines
1:00.2	right now, got me thinking about an episode we did last year called How to Survive a Pandemic.
1:06.1	At the time that we recorded that, the threat of a pandemic was mostly hypothetical.
1:11.6	But now?
1:12.6	Across China tonight, empty streets and cities on alert.
1:15.6	The deadly coronavirus outbreak is spreading faster, raising new concerns all around the globe.
1:20.6	Parents are now being told not to take their children to school.
1:23.6	They're completely sold out of masks by 10 o'clock this morning.
1:26.6	People are even standing guard to keep outsiders from coming in.
1:31.3	The new coronavirus outbreak that began in central China is causing a lot of panic, and that's in part
1:36.3	because of how fast it's spreading.
1:38.3	The World Health Organization has declared it a global health emergency, and most experts
1:43.3	say it looks increasingly like a pandemic.
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