 Hello everybody today. We are going to give you some updates about coronavirus and I'm gonna tell you some True facts that you really need to be aware of I'm going to get to the bottom of this Because there has been a lot of data that has been a lot of discussions There has been a lot of mistakes around this coronavirus and I think I it's my Responsibility to make sure that that craziness ends. Okay, at least poor patients who watch me so Basically, we are going to talk about What happens with this coronavirus guys? We had two videos already. I have been getting video. I have been getting comments questions about this coronavirus But the bottom line is stop being drowned under these details You're young you're old you're sick your diabetes under control your diabetes is not under control stop that Just stay away from people. It's not that hard 100 million Americans are in the are in the home prison and I still see people hanging around together Making fun going partying stop that do not do that because it's all of our Responsibility even if you're young people are accusing me saying that oh when you have diabetes and you have chronic conditions You may die. Yes, you may but even if you don't die you can kill somebody else Why is that so difficult to understand now? I really appreciate people who understand the responsibility But as a healthcare worker I am going to work every day and I'm trying to see people via telemedicine And that's why we have sugar MDs Especially for these days. It's extremely useful But if I have to see somebody physically just because they're really sick and I do and it's my responsibility Because I have to but you guys you don't have to if you're not a physician if you're not a At the job that requires you to be there For somebody else to to like you may be a policeman a fireman or a physician Understand, but if you're not you're young your all doesn't matter. Yes, the symptoms are let's remember the symptoms The symptoms are coughing right? It's very important Within the two to fourteen days after exposure you are going to probably have some cough fever is extremely common up to at least 90% of people get fever, but this could be a mild great fever So if you measure your temperature, it's like hundred point one you may say, oh, I don't have a fever Well, you do is it's a mild-grade fever. You don't normally run at hundred point one. Do you know if you're running around 98 99 98 99 maximum So if you're going about 100 you definitely have a mild-grade fever Now you're if you're young your symptoms may go away But doesn't mean that you you just go and do whatever you want to do take care of some jobs If you have any signs of symptoms I said before that you know if you're if your symptoms are not severe You may just stay home and do not go out But now I'm recommending actually for everybody to get tested now We have tests available and I think you guys needs to be tested even if with the mildest Common cold symptom get tested because if you do not Understand the number of cases we really are not on top of it So United States government has to know how many people are really infected because one person can infect at least five people So one person can infect at least five people That's why this case escalate it goes from 10 to 50 to 250 to 50 to 1000 Now we are up to almost 40,000 cases So and you know 400 people 500 people already died now Again, even if you don't die When we say mild symptoms 80% 85% of people get like mild symptoms when I say mild that means I guess flu It's like you cannot move your arm. You're coughing your you are sick Okay, that is mild now when we say severe that you are having hard time breathing Without oxygen you may die that is severe severe doesn't mean that you are staying home That means that you're you're in the hospital and you're needing oxygen treatment So just because I say young people get mild symptoms doesn't mean that oh, you're gonna be alright You're gonna go do things so you're gonna be in the bed. You're gonna feel horrible You're gonna you're gonna not you're not gonna be able to do anything and you're so courageous You go out and want to infect people Do it so if you're a killer, that's a good way of to kill people, right? okay, so the next thing guys is the severe symptoms you end up in the hospital and You know if you have diabetes, I don't care your diabetes is controlled or uncontrolled you need to seek attention Get tested of course control your diabetes. That's why we are here at sugar MDs Especially when you're sick your lost your good will probably skyrocket And if your blood sugars are high your immune system will be even more down So you don't want to do that So please call your diabetes doctor to make sure that that is all under control Now for our practice, it's just a text message in a couple days ago somebody called me they said their blood sugar was 600 we took care of it overnight. He woke up with a 150 blood sugar. So that's what we do And if you have a cold symptom, that's what you need to go to ER or urgent care Get tested if you need to be admitted you need to be admitted. Don't drag your feet Don't say I don't want to go to hospital or I don't want to stay in the hospital You should it's actually 100% better for you to stay in the hospital because otherwise it may be too late for you Again a 5% of people end up in the critical care and those people may go into you know the pneumonia and you know They may need a ventilator. That's why there's a huge discussion about right now How are we gonna make ventilator? You should not have had this discussion We are too late that a lot of countries like I'm from Turkey like Turkey. I'm not Super proud of Turkey normally because it's not the most democratic country But I'm like amazed and surprised how they are so strict and they were able to control their cases like around not even Couple hundreds so they were one of the last countries because they took extreme measures in the beginning and their slope is Instead of like this instead of going like this. They are like this Okay, so when you are not when you're controlling the cases It's a lot easier to get out to get out of pandemic But if you're like China you're going skyrocketing and the United States of course follows China whatever the China does come on Now we we should be better than China, right? This is the United States But now look at us. We are looking at ventilators. We are trying to have a car company to make a freaking ventilator This is ridiculous. That is our responsibility That is us that is young people's problem because young people are infecting older people and Trying to almost kill older people now Those old people do not have to have Diabetes or chronic disease so a lot of old people say oh, I'm healthy, you know, there was a guy I talked to many things like oh, yeah I've been going to gym for like all my life. I'm healthy. I'm okay No, you're not because your immune system is old your heart is old your soul may not be old But your heart is old your kidney is old everything is old You're not 20 year old anymore Even if you don't feel like you feel like great you will be infected and you will be in the hospital So do not be courageous and do not write comments saying no this doctor is crazy He thinks people are gonna die Well, if he don't think people are gonna die then they will die So it's better to take extreme measures than take no measures and saying oh your diabetes under control You're gonna be fine. Oh, you're young. You're gonna be fine. Oh, you're old, but you're healthy You're gonna be fine then then we cannot take care of you know people who are released You know getting these infections and getting sick and then we are gonna come to a point where actually we have to choose Who's gonna live do you want to get to that point? Do you should which is all people or should which is over young people worry? What do we do? We don't want to get to that point. So take Advice stay at home wash your hands You know the measures if you're watching a TV a little bit you will know what to do You stay there from people six feet, okay? People still don't pay attention when I go to supermarket today like people are like trying to run by me I'm like, what are you doing? You know, you should stay away. This is the time that you should not be too friendly, right? So these are the rules stay away from people wash your hands And you know make sure you your hands are not touching your face Sanitize your hands of washing is the most important now Of course, you know just hanging out with other people You may actually sometimes have symptoms very mild symptoms occasionally you may still infect other people You may not have symptoms at all. You probably will have symptoms down the road But while you're asymptomatic while in that you know The asymptomatic stage you may still infect other people. So as a result It is not just my responsibility not just your responsibility. It is a population think like a war We are in the war with this virus and we have to be together. You cannot say I'm old I'm not going to the war. I'm young. I have things to do. No, you have to go to war We are all in this together and that's how you do it. Okay, so Again, this this virus is way more deadly than than the flu flu kills people I don't know if you ever had flu But if when you have flu if you had flu, you know how bad it is and this coronavirus is way worse than that It puts people to the hospital it puts people to the ICU and Just because you go to the hospital that doesn't mean that in a couple days you're going to recover It may takes you weeks. So if you think that your job is too important You need to go to your job for like to save two days and to make two days of extra money You may actually lose four or five weeks down the road and that's not what you want to do If you end up in the ICU, yes, you may come out if you're lucky But even if you come out, you may have debilitating Long-term consequences from this coronavirus. So it is time to take this seriously. It is time to act It is time to stop bragging about yourself. I'm old. I'm young. I'm young. I'm healthy I don't have diabetes or my diabetes under control stop that and I think if we Can beat this virus. We will beat it together. Stop commenting stop pointing fingers and be together Stay away from other people Stay safe. Stay home. It is okay. These days will go they will pass But if we do not do what we need to do We will get stuck in this mud. We are going to be buried in our own mud. Okay, so please Please please again You know the symptoms coughing shortness of breath Mild grade or severe fever. You have to go to hospital You need to get tested And you need to make sure that you do not infect other people That is the bottom line now Guys again, if you have any questions concerns, please let me know We are primarily a diabetes company. We are a telehealth company We are uh, actually more than a telehealth company because we are basically staying in touch with our patients We are friends with our patients. Uh, we don't treat you like Just another number or another patient who just pays one time and see the doctor over On the screen one time and and the doctor goes away. Everything is done. No, we provide 360 care Everything done electronically very comprehensive very thorough. That is why we are here And I hope this video helps you in terms of coronavirus I hope we get this we get over with and then we are going to go back to Uh controlling diabetes preventing long-term complications I hope you enjoyed this video and if you did please give a thumbs up Please subscribe as well so you can benefit from the future videos We also have a lot of videos in our channel That I think if you have diabetes you will benefit a lot from and we will be releasing one to two videos At least every week and I think you will enjoy that as well. Again, this is dr. Ahmad ergim from sugarmds.com. Have a wonderful day