Saturday, March 28, 2020

Protect your Family

Watch Dr. Dave Price at Cornell,

This is excellent!

Please share!!

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https://vimeo.com/399733860
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1 comment:

Urban Mermaid said...

I shared the video with my adopted half sister who is a nurse. She had some important tips to add:

I watched the video that you sent and I liked that Dr. Price encourages people to wear a mask all the time to discourage us from touching our faces. Not touching your face is one of the hardest things to do. I would give one caveat to that though and add that you need to make sure that your mask or bandanna or whatever you choose fits you comfortably and does not fall down all the time because if you are constantly touching the mask to adjust it then you are defeating the purpose of wearing it.

I was disappointed that he was endorsing Purell as solving all our problems…because as was asked at the end of the interview, what do you do if there is no Purell? He said he would get back to her. This video was shot a week ago and I’m sure the doctor was exhausted and probably hadn’t been to a store in a while.

He said a few things that concern me. He seemed to feel that there was no need to worry about trying to disinfect what comes into your house. Maybe he feels comfortable living in a house where COVID is in his fridge but I certainly do not and I will do everything I can to remove the virus from items that I bring into my home. When I’m cooking I’m touching containers and food and unless I have cleaned everything first I will contaminate my food. You have to assume that everyone who stocks the shelves and shops in the store has COVID. People pick things up and put them back all the time and we still don’t have a clear picture of how long the virus lives. At the beginning of this we kept hearing that it lives for up to 9 days on metal surfaces.

Dr. Price also endorsed using the takeout services that are available. I'm guessing he has also not actually seen what fast food places and restaurants are doing. The people who work in food prep are not that familiar with isolation precautions or even simple universal precautions. I went to Dunkin Donuts two weeks ago and the staff was wearing masks but also gloves that were not changed between customers. That means that the server who took the credit card of the customer who was before you in line (and probably has COVID) is using that same contaminated gloved hand to put a lid on your coffee, you know the lid, the part you drink from…need I say more. I know that the doctor probably didn’t want to discourage business but he was unknowingly doing a disservice to his family and friends

I really got concerned when he said that a family member who is having symptoms and is quarantined at home can eat with the rest of the family!!! OMG! Is he on drugs??? If you are doing isolation precautions at home you eat in a separate room, the person taking your tray wears gloves, holds the tray away from their body and bleaches the plates and the tray. You could be eating and have a sudden cough or sneeze and not get to cover your mouth or nose in time because your mask is off. Oiy.

Doctors are notoriously bad about isolation, universal precautions type stuff because they deal with it less than the nurses do.

8:49 AM

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