with almost 20 years of clinical experience.

And in this video, let's discuss the coronavirus

that I'm sure you've heard about in the news,

what you should know about this

and what you should do.

You've heard about this novel coronavirus

on multiple media outlets,

and then you've also heard from multiple specialists,

virologist, disease control and prevention specialists.

And a lot of what they're telling you is worrisome,

but they're not really giving you all the practical tips

that you need and that you can use to protect yourself

and your family.

In this video, I'm going to attempt to give you

all the information you need to know

and then all the steps you need to prepare yourself

and your family so that you guys can be protected

from this infection, whether it becomes more virulent

and more worrisome or whether it peters out and dies.

If you enjoy videos about medicine and nutrition,

then take a second and click that Subscribe button

and the little bell right beside it

so that every time I get a bright idea,

you'll be one of the very first people to know.

So first, I'm gonna tell you everything you need to know

about this novel coronavirus,

and then, at the end of this video,

I'm gonna tell you the steps you can take

to protect yourself and to protect your family

from this infection or any infection.

And then, you can share this information

with the people you love to protect them as well.

This coronavirus that you've been hearing about in the news

is a virus.

It is an enveloped virus, and that'll become important

later in this video.

It's a very large RNA virus.

There are numerous coronaviruses that we know about

and that have been cataloged,

but this one is special and we'll talk about that in a bit.

Most coronaviruses exist in animals,

and there have been multiple coronaviruses

that have been documented to spread from animal to human.

But most coronaviruses end there.

There's very little, if any, spread from human to human.

That's what makes this virus different.

It started in China in 2019,

and in early 2020, it has been confirmed

that this virus does spread from human to human.

Another thing you need to know about coronaviruses

in general is that they can mutate very quickly,

and this can make them much more virulent,

which is the fear and the worry.

It can also make 'em less virulent as well.

Only time will tell what's gonna happen

with this novel coronavirus.

The symptoms of coronaviruses in humans

are typically a cold, an upper respiratory infection,

a flu-like illness, a bronchitis.

They're typically not worrisome or dangerous at all,

except to the very young, the very old,

and the very sick.

As I make this video in early 2020, in January,

it's still too early to tell just how virulent

this strain of coronavirus is,

and that's why I'm making this video

so that you can be prepared for the worst

as you hope for the best.

Now here are some key points about coronavirus

that you need to be acutely aware of.

This doesn't apply to every virus,

but it does apply to many viruses.

So first and foremost,

the coronavirus can infect a person

and that person have absolutely no symptoms

and no fever for two to five days.

They are contagious during this period

and can infect other people,

but they have no symptoms and they have no fever.

When this coronavirus is spread by coughing or sneezing,

the tiny droplets of saliva or mucus

can actually transmit this virus

up to five to seven feet away.

So you don't have to be right up against someone

or giving them a hug or a kiss

to catch this virus from them.

This coronavirus is contained in an envelope,

which protects it from the environment.

And so if someone coughs or sneezes

or touches their eye, nose, or mouth

and then touches a surface like a countertop

or a door knob or a seat back,

the virus can stay there dormant but yet alive

for up to five days.

This is another thing that makes this particular type

of virus very dangerous and very hard to control the spread.

Another key fact about this type of virus

is that you see people in Asia wearing masks,

and that's probably good.

That probably does control the spread

and protect them a little from infection.

But this virus can infect any of your mucus membranes.

So that includes your eyes,

your nose, your mouth,

your genital region, and your anal region.

Any of these are susceptible to this coronavirus.

It appears that the most dangerous place you can be

in an outbreak like this, whether it becomes

a pandemic or not, is a closed environment

with a closed atmosphere.

So a bus, a train, an airplane, a large meeting of people,

whether that's a public meeting or whether that's church,

clinics and hospitals, all these places

where there are lots of people in very close proximity

with a closed atmosphere.

So you're not outside in a pasture or walking on the street.

These environments tend to magnify the danger

of a virus like this.

Currently, there is no test for this coronavirus.

There is no vaccine to prevent it.

And there is no medication to treat it.

If you do develop this virus

and go to a clinic or hospital,

all the healthcare provider can do

is give you supportive care,

and we'll talk about that later in this video.

As I said earlier, you can be infected

and you can be contagious with this coronavirus

for up to five days and have no symptoms

or no fever whatsoever.

So currently, in airports, they are screening people

with thermography, which basically is checking them

to see if they have a fever.

But you don't have to necessarily have a fever

with this virus to be contagious.

In healthy teenagers up until about 50 or 60 years of age,

this coronavirus is likely to give you symptoms

of a severe cold, a severe respiratory infection,

even a severe influenza-type infection,

but the danger is is in the very young,

the very old, and the very sick or people

with conditions that suppress

or derange their immune system,

this can lead to much more serious infections

and even death.

Both Middle East respiratory syndrome

and severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS and MERS,

which you may have heard about in the news

a few years back, they're both coronaviruses.

Now we don't know the virulence of this current

novel coronavirus strain, but in those strains,

they were virulent enough to spread from human to human,

and they were severe enough to kill people,

but they weren't virulent enough

to become a pandemic that the entire world

should be worried about.

I don't want you to worry about this virus.

I don't want you to panic about this virus.

But I do want you to be concerned.

I want you to be vigilant,

and I want you to be prepared.

At the end of this video, I'm gonna give you steps,

very easy, simple to implement steps that you can use

to protect yourself and your family.

Now first, I wanna give you a scenario,

an example of how you could become infected,

even though you feel like you're doing a lotta things right.

So let's say you're in a public place.

You maybe went to the store, you went to work,

and you come in contact with a person

who was infected two days ago.

They still have no symptoms, they have no fever.

They still feel fine.

They sneeze in your presence from dust

or from some pollen in the environment,

not from the coronavirus infection,

and you're standing five feet away from them.

You have just become infected

because some of the viral particles landed in your eye.

Maybe you were even wearing a mask

and thought you were protected,

but you weren't wearing wraparound protective glasses,

and therefore, it got in your eye.

You're now infected with the coronavirus.

Some of the saliva droplets landed on a door handle,

and two days later, someone else touches that door handle

to go to the restroom and then they touch their eye,

their nose, or their mouth.

They're now infected with this coronavirus,

even though they haven't been within 100 yards

of the infected person.

They touched a surface that had the coronavirus on it,

and as I said earlier, it'll live on surfaces like that

for up to five days.

So now you're infected with this novel coronavirus.

You get on a bus to head home.

Even though you feel great and you have no fever,

you infect multiple people on that bus ride home

because you coughed a little bit because you were drinking

something, you got a little choked.

The saliva droplets are spreading all over

this closed environment, and people who are not even

sitting near you can be infected.

And then the next load of people that get on the bus

will touch the seat where you were sitting.

They will also be infected,

even though they've never even met you.

Now you finally arrive home, you take off your mask,

you're still feeling fine, no fever, no symptoms,

and you proceed to infect your entire family,

even though you don't even know you have this virus yet.

Now that scenario sounds scary, but again,

I don't want you to be, I don't want you to panic,

I don't want you to be worried.

I want you to be concerned and vigilant,

and I want you to get prepared in case

this does become a very virulent coronavirus

that develops into a pandemic.

So now let's talk about what you should do

to prepare yourself and prepare your family

in case this does become a problem.

First and foremost is stay home.

Stay away from crowded areas.

Stay away from people in general.

Only stay around your immediate family.

This is the ultimate protection,

and this is something I feel like the specialists

that you're seeing on mainstream media right now,

they're just not talking about this.

If this does get worse, you need to stay home.

Number two, while you're at home, you need to discourage

and deny visitors.

As long as you keep your door closed

and there is no possible way that virus particles

riding on saliva or mucus, micro-particles can get

to your family, you guys are safe.

And so you can sit home and you can order DoorDash

and you can order stuff off Amazon

and not be compromised, as long as you're using

the universal precautions of wearing gloves,

wearing a mask, and wearing the wraparound eye goggles

any time you go outside your home.

Now let's say you have to go to work.

You're either your profession is something

that is vital to the proper function of society