In the past six months, a full year, the United States has suffered more deaths and diseases from the new coronavirus than any other country in the world. Of the 28 million showed cases of COVID-19 in humans and 900,000 documented deaths worldwide. more than 20% have occurred in the United States Unidos. Al as of September 9, 2020, 6. 5 million Americans had been screened for the disease and 194,000 had died.
The underlying cause is a small virus, SARS-CoV-2, which is a component of the coronavirus family and is transmitted through the air; it can be spread simply through breathing droplets or aerosol components. It is also highly contagious, with a few other people serving as spreaders consistent with: capable of infecting dozens, loads, or even more than 1,000 people over a single initial case. At 50,000 new cases consistent with the day, many deaths a day and with the fall (and flu season) approaching, the scenario is about to get worse.
And yet there is one thing we can do: we can fight COVID-19 as a scientist. Even after 6 months, it’s not too late. Here’s what you want to happen.
Currently, there are a massive number of active instances of COVID-19 in the United States: estimated at around 2. 5 million, or only about 1% of the population. We hope that most of those instances have been resolved without long-term damage. it’s too early to tell), however many (a significant percentage) have a maximum likelihood of long-lasting negative effects Damage to a patient’s respiratory formula, circulatory formula, and endocrine formula has been reported, with situations ranging from mild (such as myocarditis) to severe (such as organ failure).
While it is true that elderly, immunosuppressed, or other comorbid patients are at higher risk for severe disease than other groups, severe cases have occurred resulting in long-term injury or even death in young adults, adolescents, and even the elderly. healthy children. Jamain Stephens, a 20-year-old school football player, died of headaches from COVID-19. With many schools reopening for in-person training despite a lack of sufficient precautions, others are right to worry that many other academics (and younger), athletes and non-athletes, will suffer unnecessarily.
That’s not the case, of course. From the beginning, science has indicated the most productive way to prevent the spread of this disease. Although we have done a bad job of following these recommendations in the United States, clinical evidence has only increased. Despite concerted attempts to minimize the virus . . . how contagious it is, how harmful and fatal it is, and how smoothly it can be transmitted without proper precautions: infection rates and the number of deaths do not lie.
From a public aptitude perspective, there are individual steps we can take for ourselves and those we come into contact with. Wearing masks, practicing social estating, not touching the front (or inside) of our mask and washing/disinfecting common hands are simple enough for most of us, but without universal compliance with its effectiveness. is limited.
Individual interventions will never achieve the same degrees of good fortune as a coordinated set of national efforts – the same efforts that have been good in countries around the world, from New Zealand to Vietnam, Spain to Italy, and more. If we were to give the reins to science, this is how we could beat this existing pandemic in the United States and return to a “new normal” as in the top countries of Europe and Asia, even before a vaccine is available and effective . .
1. ) We want a national mask protection order. Forgive anyone who has a medical explanation as to why they cannot wear a mask; the case is that the dangers of transmission and acquisition of the new coronavirus are triggered without mask. While the N95 and surgical mask are (and will be) reserved for hospital settings, hybrid mask and two-layer cotton mask provide exceptional coverage in 3 essential ways:
While masks, scarves, bandanas, and leggings vary in quality and effectiveness, any facial coverage is better than no facial coverage.
Face shields, a popular alternative, offer little or no coverage to the wearer compared to masks.
In contrast, the mask with integrated valves or vents protects the user, but does not protect others. As a general rule, if you cannot turn off a candle while wearing the coating, it will most likely be effective. Not only are they much less likely to infect others, however, their COVID-19 infections are statistically much more likely to be mild, than serious or worse.
2. ) Stay socially away and have it respected When you leave your home or contact someone who does not live directly with you in your home, you will have to stand at least 6 feet (2 meters) away from anyone else. What constitutes 6 feet?
The explanation is simple: the virus is transmitted through the debris in the air that is expelled through respiratory activity, this includes breathing, laughing, singing, talking, shouting, betting musical instruments, coughing and sneezing, among others. The air-launched load can be particularly reduced, as can the distance driven through droplets and aerosols. Without a mask, they can reach up to more than 26 feet. A recent meta-study found that not only were 6 feet (2 meters) effective at cutting viral transmission, but that every additional 3 feet (1 meter) reduce transmission and sensitivity. Talking deserves to be normalized when someone is too close to their state, and leave enough distance among others for protection explain why they deserve to be obligatory.
3. ) Do not mix indoors with other people who live outside of your home. The main determining factor of whether someone contracts the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is the most undeniable possible: exposure. The greater your chance of contracting COVID-19 and the greater your exposure, the greater the likelihood that you will have a severe, severe, or even fatal case.
When inside, aerosol debris remains in the air, and if a user in that area is inflamed with SARS-CoV-2, continues to accumulate the viral load to which a user is exposed in that area. drinking (such as bars or restaurants), where it is not unusual to do a song or speak aloud (such as study rooms or churches), or where difficult and heavy breathing occurs (such as gyms) only exacerbates this effect.
If we were looking to take public conditioning precautions seriously and decrease infection rates, there would be a moratorium on face-to-face collection in spaces like this until the virus is under Fix Although the virus is not low lately in the United States, there is a remarkably undeniable way of doing it.
four. ) Apply a “stay home” plan for four to 6 weeks. This is the massive step that can lead us to victory over the virus, however, it requires national coordination and massive degrees of social compliance to succeed. The explanation for why the virus has continued to spread over the population for more than six months, and will continue to do so until existing situations are substantially replaced, is that many of us too are participating in non-essential contacts.
We can fight this if we have a national refuge in order. We can prepare for this through:
The few contacts that cannot be removed (mainly for fitness reasons) will ensure that a certain amount of virus remains in our population, however, shelter-in-place orders (i. e. stay home) are one of the most successful. fitness interventions that a society can adopt to combat a pandemic such as COVID-19.
5. ) Reopen according to clinical guidelines. Although we have been fighting the new coronavirus in the United States for six months, we are not yet following the recommendations of scientists, we do not have a universal search for contacts. We have no rapid and widespread mass evidence, as we do not know who is positive and who has been exposed, we do not properly ingest or quarantine, which means that asymptomatic carriers, presymptomatic carriers and others with active and symptomatic infections are all in public, with the prospect of infecting us all.
If we were to prevent this pandemic and save it thousands more deaths, we would have interaction in these 3 interventions:
When infections begin to increase, a local home maintenance order can simply weigh an epidemic with this data before it spreads to other communities.
These five interventions, taken together, can in principle take us from tens of thousands of new cases per day to just burdens in a few weeks. Just as many countries with giant populations and highly variable populations have already safely reopened by taking precisely these measures, recovering from catastrophic rates of initial infection, the United States (and the United Kingdom, and other countries with circumstances) can simply make an absolute tide in combat opposing COVID-19. This only requires following the most productive clinical recommendation that experts have to make. Offer.
Without it, the disease will continue to devastate individuals, families, communities and the country as a whole. The economic effects will be severe and long-lasting, and our most productive hope of overcoming them will come from a vaccine. Still, we will also have to be scientifically guilty on this front: vaccines will have to be proven and effective and, in reality, no bachelor is yet near the bottom line. Not only might a rushed vaccine not work, giving other people false hope of coverage, it could have unacceptable side effects.
The most productive component of this clinical solution is that it is available to us – we can decide to adopt it at any time. The social and economic effects of the pandemic remain disastrous, but they can be addressed by making situations safe for everyone – workers, customers, teachers, and students. Enforce mask protection orders, distancing requirements, moratorium on dicy business and activities, a coordinated shelter-in-place order for 4-6 weeks, and only reopen with science-based rules in instead (which includes touch-tracking, generalized testing, and isolation / quarantine for the inflamed and exposed) we can defeat the virus as a society.
Many of us, of course, are more than tired of having an effect on the new coronavirus it has had on our lives. The idea of having to isolate ourselves more is in fact terrifying, however, it is an action that would possibly have a greater effect on the prevention of this virus than anything we have done to date. Until a safe and effective vaccine is widely available, this is the clinical path to a safe reopened America. We can decide at any time. The faster we do this, the more lives we’ll have saved.
I have a PhD in astrophysicist, writer and clinical communicator, who teaches physics and astronomy at universities. I’ve won a lot of awards for clinical writing.
I have a PhD in astrophysics, writer and science communicator, teaching physics and astronomy at various universities. I have won scientific writing awards since 2008 for my blog, Starts With A Bang, adding the Best Science Blog award from the Institute of Physics. My two books, Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive, Beyond the Galaxy: How Mankind Looked Beyond Our Milky Way, and Discovered the Entire Universe, are available on Amazon. Follow me on Twitter @startswithabang.