The Facts regarding the Coronavirus, COVID-19, are so essential right now we had to put out this post. There is so much misinformation swirling around, especially on social media, regarding COVID-19, aka ‘CoronaVirus’. This list of facts, which we will keep updated, is all you really need.
Please, please share this important information with everyone you know.
– COVID-19, aka ‘Coronavirus’ is not a hoax. Today, March 11th, the World Health Organization officially declares the Coronavirus a pandemic of “alarming levels of spread.”
– Rumors are our enemies. Facts and verified, official information are our friends.
– Panic is no way to respond to any crisis. Be reasonable. Listen only to experts in health. Not idiotic social media posts.
– There is no vaccine for COVID-19. There are no reliable treatments.
– The elderly and people with illnesses including auto-immune, heart disease, cancer and diabetes are the most likely to die from exposure to COVID-19.
– Stay away from elderly and ill people if you feel sick. For total safety, stay away from anyone if you feel sick until you know if you are sick with COVID-19 or something else.
– If people are not tested, they may not know they are carrying it and giving it to others.
– People who feel sick, even if they don’t think they have COVID-19, should self-quarantine until they can (if they can) get tested.
– Wash your hands continuously under hot water for 20 seconds and wash vigorously as well as under finger nails and in between all fingers.
– Do not touch an unsanitized surface (esp at a sink used by others) near the sink after washing.
– Do not open public doors with handles without a tissue or glove; if you do, wash your hands right afterwards without touching yourself or your face.
– Avoid touching your face. The virus is spread by exposure to membranes – that includes your eyes, nose, and mouth.
– How long the virus lives on hard surfaces is still unknown. For the best prevention, assume it is more than six hours. Some experts believe eight hours.
– Avoid touching areas that others touch, especially in public places.
– Avoid crowds until widespread testing is available and the peak of the viral spread has passed, which could be a couple or more months. Much is still unknown – that’s why facts from official sources are paramount at this time.
– By now, most people should be instituting their own ‘social distancing’ until more is known about the virus and testing is widely available. This one act can greatly reduce the spread of the virus. Staying three to six feet away from others, most especially from anyone coughing or sneezing.
– It is possible for the virus, while suspended in droplets in the air (such as when someone is coughing or sneezing), to DIRECTLY transmit to your face, often without you knowing or feeling it because the droplets are so fine, nearly invisible.
– If you feel sick, and you are young and healthy, do not go to the hospital. Hospitals will soon be at or over capacity. The chances that a healthy person under the age of 60 with no underlying conditions will get seriously sick, or even die, from COVID-19 is very low.
All of the data is showing young people, especially children, get mildly ill and recover quickly. However, children and young adults can still be healthy carriers and transmitters of COVID-19 with NO signs of any illness, not even sniffles.
On March 11, we are starting to ramp up the number of cases, and reported deaths. This acceleration will continue, and if China is any model, should hit a peak rate in roughly two months.
