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Chasing Life

Listener Questions Answered

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta goes through his inbox and answers some listeners’ questions about Covid-19. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello Dr. Gupta.

0:02.0

Hi, my name is Laura and I'm from Michigan.

0:06.0

Hi Sanjay, this is Jim from Atlanta.

0:08.0

It seems like the longer this pandemic goes on, the more questions we have.

0:13.0

From the near future to the long haul, we all want to know how and when things will go back to normal.

0:19.0

I'll be honest, as a doctor, I hate not having all the answers.

0:23.0

But it's important to me to keep reassessing, checking in, and updating you as things change.

0:29.0

So today, I'll address some of the questions you've been sending me.

0:33.0

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent.

0:37.0

And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

0:46.0

I work for FedEx as a career.

0:49.0

We've been hearing things about they're being home test kits for coronavirus

0:55.0

and that they would be shipping them through us.

0:59.0

And I was just curious, what are your thoughts on this?

1:03.0

Should the careers be concerned about this?

1:07.0

Well, first off, thanks so much for your service.

1:11.0

It's so important that essential workers like you not be put at risk.

1:15.0

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first ad home COVID-19 test earlier this month.

1:21.0

And I've actually done it. It involves spitting into a test tube.

1:25.0

You've got to fill the vial up to a certain line, usually take several minutes.

1:29.0

You seal it in a biohazard bag and send it back to a lab.

1:33.0

I can see how it would be scary to transport a package that might contain the coronavirus,

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