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Chasing Life

What Is the Coronavirus?

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Sanjay Gupta wants to help you understand the new coronavirus. Today, he answers some of the basic questions that everyone is asking: What is it? What are the symptoms? Who is most at risk? How does it spread? And how afraid should we be? To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

How much should I be worried about my kids in coronavirus?

0:02.5

And what can I do to best protect them?

0:04.2

How should I know if I should get tested?

0:05.8

Where are we with the development of a vaccine for the coronavirus?

0:10.2

What are its early symptoms?

0:11.9

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

0:16.2

Everywhere I go, people have been asking me all sorts of questions about the coronavirus.

0:21.0

I was wondering if my kids are going to be able to finish school year.

0:24.4

What conditions should lead us to cancel our travel plans?

0:27.1

Do I need a face mask?

0:28.8

And how do I avoid getting sick?

0:31.0

So much has been going on all over the world, and the news has been changing every day.

0:36.8

The numbers are scary, and I know the information hasn't always been clear.

0:41.4

I'm here to give you the answers.

0:43.8

From CNN, you're listening to Coronavirus, Fact vs Fiction.

0:52.6

For today's episode, let's first take a step back and just get the facts straight.

0:57.4

These are some of the most basic questions I keep hearing.

1:00.4

First question, what is the coronavirus and why is it called that?

1:04.6

Well the coronavirus is a type of virus, obviously.

1:08.2

The reason it's called a coronavirus is not because it has anything to do with coronavirus,

1:13.0

although that is one of the most common questions we seem to be getting.

1:16.4

The two are totally unrelated, except they are named for the same thing, which is coronavirus,

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