 hey guys what's up welcome back to my channel thank you so much for watching so in this video i wanted to talk to you guys about the coronavirus this has been the cause of near mass hysteria especially in the healthcare setting but definitely outside and in the general population people are really worried about this and you know i think it's mostly because we are not well educated on the virus and how it's going to present and how it spreads and what would be the effect on you a potential carrier or um infecting so basically the coronavirus has been out there for a long time but what's new about this one is that um this particular strain has been causing a lot of major respiratory complications and that basically means problems with the lungs right so there is going to be a more concern for bronchitis, pneumonia and things like that and usually people who are at the extremes of age are more affected by lung diseases and less likely to recover hence the fatality numbers so the virus is being called currently SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 coronavirus disease 19 since it was first identified in December 2019 in China so it was originally found in Wuhan province in China the areas of most dense um infection are in addition to China, South Korea, Italy, Iran and Japan as of early March so like a couple days ago this is the last updated information from the CDC so how will you know if you have COVID or coronavirus so the most common symptoms are going to be fever cough and usually it's a dry cough but sometimes it can be productive fatigue and last piece that makes it most dangerous the pneumonia or the respiratory symptoms so you feel really short of breath it hurts when you take a deep breath and maybe you feel like you just can't breathe at all so those are going to be like the most concerning symptoms and if you do feel that way you should present immediately to your nearest emergency room so what we do know is that children are more likely to have a mild form of disease which is great because I have little ones and I'm always nervous about that bringing home something to them and infecting them is a major stressor for me but the more likely population that's going to be affected by this would be like the elderly or people who are immunocompromised or have already a depressed immune system for some reason so maybe they're on drugs for that maybe they have cancer and they're on chemotherapy pregnancy can be a cause of a state of immunocompromise so those patients need to be very careful about noticing these symptoms early and presenting for treatment early so as a point of comparison the regular seasonal flu has a mortality rate of 0.1% so in comparison to that COVID or coronavirus has a mortality rate of about 2% so that's why everyone is up in arms and pretty nervous about it but we all just need to be cautious about how we go about our regular lives take universal precautions wash your hands cough into your elbow or sneeze into your elbow and not into your hands and if you do feel sick go to the hospital if you have a fever especially just because you know you want to have this identified quickly and you want to make sure that you don't infect others in your home and in your community to last but not least if you have traveled in the last two weeks and you are feeling symptomatic please do go seek medical help me as a healthcare provider someone who is at basically the front lines of someone who will come in with any respiratory compromise as an anesthesiologist I'll be the one that they call to help support the breathing if the patient needs to be intubated I will be wearing my protective personal protective equipment as I usually do so that means a mask with also eye protection and then I will also have a gown on and always gloves as per usual so we'll be seeing cases for sure in my hospital as a level one center we get a lot of referrals we've all been educated on how to treat patients with this disease even though it's scary you know education is powerful so knowing what to do in those situations will help us to treat people safely and also to prevent ourselves from also being affected so with that being said don't be nervous don't be scared but just be safe all right till next time I'll see you and don't forget to like and subscribe and leave your comments below and remember the CDC does not recommend that you wear a face mask in public to prevent respiratory viruses from being spread it's about hand hygiene and also covering your cough and your sneeze when I am out there and I see people coughing out no not the time for that please people cover your cough cover your sneeze you'll keep this disease from spreading trust me