First and foremost, wash your hands, wash your hands, and wash your hands. When we’re washing our hands, make sure that we wash for at least 20 seconds with soap and water, covering all surfaces of your hands, including in between your fingers, and your fingertips.
Next, if you need to cough and/or sneeze, be sure to either use a piece of paper, and then throw it away, then wash your hands or, if that’s not available, cough and sneeze onto a sleeved elbow. Then, try to avoid touching your face with your hands, whether it’s your nose, your eyes or your mouth. If you’re sick, stay home, and if need be, call your doctor.
At this time, we don’t recommend people in general to wear masks. However, if you have symptoms of fever, cough or shortness of breath, a mask can actually prevent yourself from spreading your germs or the virus to the public. However, a mask is no substitute for good hand-washing.
When a person would either cough or sneeze, and the infection—the virus, would travel from the droplets that is being sprayed out from the cough or the sneeze into the air, and if it were to land onto the other person’s eye’s mucosa, or any surface, that’s how it actually would be spread to another person.
At this point, I would recommend that we don’t shake hands and/or greet each other the traditional ways because we want to avoid touching each other and share germs that way. However, there are other creative and fun ways that we can greet each other, simply by, let’s say, doing the air high-five, and the air handshake. And, of course, the traditional Chinese greeting, where we just hold our hands together, smile and say Hi.
This is a derivative work of Quick Facts on Coronavirus with DR. Pak by SFGovTV licensed under CC BY 3.0. Transcribed from https://youtu.be/uZHzBLmFyMw