Dont go to 0. I have family ok and your in the stream today as a very important episode were going to take a look at some of the biggest myths about kovi 19 and clear up rumors and misconceptions we are joined by a panel of experts to take your questions so you can send them via a live chat or on twitter at a. J. Straight. Joining us on skype thats of the he will eunice is chief quality officer and chief of Infectious Diseases at the university of maryland up a tessa peak health 2nd at than a science editor at National Geographic and alice to reduce the digital editor at 1st ralph neas thank you for playing with us youre going to be on screen pretty much all of the time so whenever you want to miss last whenever you want to add something to help us understand Something Better go ahead were going to be on t. V. Together for the next 25 minutes lets get started young people capitalize on cheap coronavirus flights if i die id die so that is on my laptop that is a headline that has been going around for the last couple of weeks for his doctor for haim can young people actually get coronavirus all they say so go no way this will not discriminate but if youre young or old the only difference is you may have a milder disease based on what we know so far the worst of the bad outcomes are in elderly and those with immunocompromised conditions so you mystic to get the disease but you want to roll the dice by a light domestically and leave that up to you of course internationally you that if you want to see count go ahead. Yeah i mean some of the early evidence suggests that young people are actually more likely than older people to catch the disease so theres a higher percentage of cases in young people and they use one report in the new england journal of medicine found that young people actually make up a higher proportion of severe disease so what ive been telling people is that gas isnt the only danger so you could have severe disease and a life long long injury even if you dont die so young people definitely take this seriously. I have another headline and this is me and weve been reporting this news and this is about the idea that places in china and south korea. Done a really good job of pulling the coronavirus and the number of cases have gone down so everything is ok out there so let me show you this week in asia coronavirus south koreas infection rate falls without city knockdowns like china and italy say can you start with this one 1st of all if all true well i want you to get to its kind of a me i mean there were some small lockdowns korea but they were just very isolating. I mean i think if you look at it if you compare china with south korea if strategies were sort of similar in terms of what actually was able to stand the spread of the virus and that was increasing testing what weve found in multiple different locations is that the only way that you can get ahead of this outbreak is by just testing. Out the abuse and its. Very publicly put i love that. Test the bottle of this disease. The flame i saw you knew nothing there smiling of the of the idea of that that south korea is done chinas done everythings ok i would say dont but the point i think im not a bell fan so the games are a basketball games are decided in the 4th order and its the action back toward order in the real world its the 1st quarter that batters not the 4th or its how you play your 1st quarter i know you initiated the take control of this disease which south korea has done his test test test and then did it get. So to give you a comparison in us we have tested about 100 people or a 1000000 south korea has done over 5000 test or a 1000000 so when you identified that much like the gun was saying many of the younger people being symptomatic they may be running in the malls just spreading it to others but once you identify them and you give them a p. S. For an x. Box whatever they like and you say one week. And chances are youre going to get a better hold on this virus game so to keep the sporting analogy what call to weigh in right now good question i think were probably towards the end of the 1st quarter maybe in the 2nd and it depends which country you talk about yeah i think in us were in 1st quarter i think it in the end theyre probably they didnt have time all right so can you take this one as a kind of virus since just like no biggie. I was like i cant wait to get started on this. And its a surprise well. How many of you must be or the best to you im sorry. But then you cant promise perspective my good and bad with nothing i think this is gallows hearing yeah right so you can go ahead now its wow these people are innocent person over and over again i mean i think we should treat big 18 flu serious infections but theyre serious in their own ways and we cope with 19 if you look through you know what we call the case fatality ratio its 30 to 40 times higher than what we see with the seasonal influenza yeah so you know its over 1000 reaches as many people as seasonal influenza in the United States i mean youre talking about 1000000 gaffs. We havent seen that many deaths in a short period. At least for the people who are alive we havent seen that ever i say you had cattle articulate the hard touch i did thats one thats one of those been said around so often and so frequently and it can actually be one of the most dangerous ones if people dont think that its going to affect them exactly as has been discussed already if people dont think this is a problem if people dont think its going to affect them that doesnt mean that it wont show its others and i think one of the reasons that rumor has been so because it pervasive is because it effects different people in different ways and because theres been a lot of uncertainty and one thing that we know for sure about you know my specialty is in medicine my specialty is how information travels on line of misinformation and when there is uncertainty people often try to fill that gap we have to sell a misinformation loves a vacuum when there is not a lot of that euro or reliable information or a lot of the time when researchers and academics disagree about the best course of action as people try to help each other out and people are trying to work out how intense how that like. A laptop playing at a school shall pass yeah. I think with with with this situation weve kind of seen. A lot of the that this information as and misinformation in and rumors and for such accidentally a lot of that has been in terms of kind of 4 distinct buckets id say its been about where its come from the source of the coronavirus its been around how it spreads how its traveled around the world its been around some of the the treatment and the symptoms and its been around how governments respond it so i im not sure if you can see my screen at moment. Yet never get to see yet so i thank you this is some work by the excellent folks at the who then along with a lot of other Fact Checkers around the world really working overtime to battle some of the rumors that me going around and they identify it is this pervasive room again which has been shared as a. You know saying that a video filmed in a market is where this is this is where the corona virus originated and they publish this action in fact check about it and i can kind of walk through some of the steps of how they did that. This is one of the places where they found the video and you can see now facebook and one of the other platforms have really stepped up how they are responding to this theres a thing that when you land on it now the says false information that was in there initially when it was shown and its has what nearly 4000 shows we can see this is one of dozens of examples of this video and you can see when you go to it people are Walking Around as the video goes on you can see various animals which apparently being sold and eaten and what we see again and again and again this is no matter what the topic is its old pictures and old videos research heritage reviews online this is that same video and hopefully of us can see that from july 2019 not from we and this is in indonesia as well sorry not from around not from December December when stars and in terms of how anyone can check this stuff out its called well we call it reverse image search so you can search google or yandex but why do all these other big internet Search Engines and they obviously have their own estates of bases and if something has appeared online before there will be a record of that on the pages its a period so theres a really good plugin for a program thats very quickly called invades and which anyone can access i kind of loaded this up already you put the u. R. L. For the thing that youre suspicious about in there and youre in the key frames area and then what you do is you can search for some of these pictures to see if theres a bit that appears on one before im in chrome so i can just go down to search google for image and itll pop up with a new window which will identify whether or not google has a record of the picture appearing elsewhere online and immediately we can see. All these examples of where that picture not that its freezing frame from that video that has appeared on when this is something you have been anybody can do to check out a picture or video that theyve seen online and i think and i think this is should be taught in schools. Colleges as well as learning is knowing when to do these checks and not understanding the different types as i said about where its come from how it spreads. Around the treatment or about government responses then hes obviously something which makes you go wow which makes you stop and react and give you a strong emotional reaction that is a sign that potentially what youre saying isnt true and the next need to be dont yell at it so thats also known as common sense all right. Dr heal that question about its just flu no bottle i think its really important we get the medical perspective unless you want Infectious Disease specialist or. So i point number one flu virus has been around for centuries and therefore our bodies have some immunity against it good or not it is novel our immune system has never seen this virus so that is why many of the deaths are happening number 2 its a bunch more virus and if i have no idea pass it on to one or 2 more people it coronavirus they likely to pass it on. The bird really as he can as already said or i think alister that its 20 to 30 times more lethal as compared to when that number or look we do have a treatment because of that scene or growers we have neither one of and some people will say well the vaccine is just around wherever the treatment is going to be around here in 3 months and. Well theres a great love is not a strategy its about serenity i think you have to understand that Vaccine Development and Medication Development is a long pipeline if if you are big kid and its going to the recipe calls for 30 minutes at the outlet you can turn up the heat in the oven and say im going to get a kick in 30 seconds youll have a burned glob of something but it wont have a kick so no matter how good our intentions are that scenes and medications are months or years away and we need a solution today and that is why we think people need to understand the difference between grown up virus and and unite behind social distancing see kind i know that youre not done some research into what happens to our lungs. If we are infected with corona virus can you just briefly explain not so that even if we get it and then recover from it whats happened inside us yes i mean in a couple of interesting points i mean i think over 19 unlike its earlier closing sars and murders it is an interesting feature in that it can in fact both the upper respiratory tract but also the lower respiratory tract so were starting routines mainly the lower respiratory tract and thats why it was so devastating. Thats devastating because it really eats away at the lung tissue leaving whats known as the honeycomb shape in the lungs. And thats where you start to see things like Pulmonary Fibrosis which is just a technical term for permanent lung scarring and so i was you know with the you know theres no way to treat this scarring so once it happens you sort of have it for the rest of your life. During the inspection itself you know as as as your lungs get under more and more distress and as your body tries to mount a defense against this infection you know your your immune system really just gets overrun and it creates something thats known as a static and storm or as we call it we called it a blood storm you know essential what happens is these markers that tell year immune system to switch on so see how you know yes were going to lose me a little bit im so sorry what happens inside my lungs whats going to have satellite down on yeah so just exciting along as its destroying your destroying your your lower the bottom part of your lungs creating this honeycomb chair ok but i think the other thing thats interesting about covering 18 is that it takes your upper respiratory track suit your your throat your nose and thats what a lousy to spread good to easily all right ok i. Money is out there. Obviously people really keen to know how do we get better one of the killers and i know that pills are some of the problematic areas that people are a dipping into on social help us understand that it mark. Yeah i think. People are you know that the way that misinformation travels a lot is people trying to like social media is very performance that right i know a lot of it is people trying to help each other people trying to provide value to each other and be a good citizen in this situation and part of that is looking out for their friends and family so soon many times weve seen people staring things online talking about potential cures potential treatments all kinds of things around how people can prove can prevent getting it or how people can get better if they do have it and one particular particularly galling example michel mistreat again quickly now this was has appeared in lots and lots of different circumstances but apparently people sharing the claim that alcohol can either prevent growth grow out of us or can cure current wars and this is from the great people of whom which is a Fact Checking organization in india and this was actually caught on newspapers out in india hopefully the refresh it but it was it was shares in in clips from one wild on whats out there is this an accurate frame that alcohol can help and this isnt just in india but around the world and i cant speak with the authority or they are theyre against their in terms of what is good and what isnt but i mean everyone should be listening to their doctors rather than what they see shared on whatsapp because the effect that this one had for example is that in iran dozens of people died from Drinking Alcohol in attempts to cure or protect themselves against against coronavirus and there been other things this is a sense to me that what are some friends around was that could be seen anything we had recently about what can and cant help you or what can and cant spread the disease and this is something which has popped up again and again and again with claims about that if you take a deep breath and hold more than 10 seconds then youre fine if you can do that you know you should drink water every 15 minutes to have a problem without all the other things are all i right here avatar so i was just like i have a question here dont you think when a message and posting spread this message that subjects like it felt. Yeah i mean i mean im standing but its a hard thing right because a lot of people will also be taking story im going to theres a lot of people all that will also be saying to their friends this is something which a friend of a friend of our friends on earth just as brothers elses husband told me. But its really important because save your life so read it and share it i hope i agree with you that someone here is put together this like was a graphic. Is looking for people to share and theyve got their hand london event. In the in terms of curators in terms of treatments in terms of i mean their only cure in terms of treatments and prevention listen please everybody listen to the experts because its thats what is going to help people and thats whats going to save peoples lives i said you know i love and i found out just as i was searching for corona virus and i was just in the normal settled and see here i was really shocked because i was on twitter and i was looking for corona virus and then up popped interrupting my search this yes i can go to where i wanted to go it is said to know the facts and its. A sense for Disease Control and prevention to me straight to that site fact of the fact of the fat i shared that because i was i was really impressed is very rarely happens the big news stories on social and then philippe actually joined in and said hey theyre doing it everywhere philippe is here in brussels and they have shared what he was saying when he tried to search for corona virus is the good that social media platforms are doing just very briefly yeah i mean theyve theyve really stepped up in the last couple of weeks in terms of and you know for longer than that and terms of how theyre responding and how theyre protecting their users i would say that thats in contrast to a lot of the measures that they and different ones have brought in before when it comes to political misinformation which we know the last 6 months weve seen various different situations over the last you know of recent years theres been all kinds of political misinformation but i think here there are. There is a real risk of harm people in the dark even to die if you get it right and i understand we promised our audience on the stream that were not only mistrustfully on its their questions doesnt mean this one is great its been coming as weve been talking so j. D. Says its correct to say that black people are less likely to contact coronavirus and then another what exactly the same topics samuel says camp that people resist coronavirus better than plate people thought something so great question i think one of the reasons that youre seeing celebrities getting this infection the infection the virus is saying something the virus is saying i dont care where they go white or black yeah if youre rich or poor you are probably going to just alberto no interest however makes no difference exactly so the virus is asking one simple question are you here and if youre human you are a target because guess what happens the virus knows that it can all get it killed 2 percent of the people the other 98 percent are likely to know well either get out of hospitals ition or with so the virus has 2 options either kill you or thats how it ends the game which is only 2 percent the bigger strategy for the viruses but then there was never the next 7 or 8 days that theres an immune system fight going on that your body the virus finds another host and insects and other human beings and continues to get in those 7 days on and on and on so the writers actually doesnt get it whether youre black or white i think the precautions are universal and should be taken by everyone on sci can weigh in. Well i think just on that last point i mean there are some early evidence suggesting that people might be reinfected with the corona virus which might suggest that our bodies are having trouble creating an immunity to this virus and that we treat it with what weve seen with cold causing coronaviruses right we can get infected over and over again with those viruses. And i mean that could be troublesome for developing a vaccine because you really need the human body to be able to set up when you get. And i think i look at it differently because this is we see in many infections were finding the infection or the d. N. A. And the rest go to system is not evidence of defection sometimes its just dead particles and we all believe that we dont know but there will be some immunity particularly in the same season how long that immunity last is open to question but of course we dont know the right judgment im going to speak honestly things up let me tell you i think its still so can you tell us any question jacks weve got a lot of questions im going to just move on a little bit so this is coming from here rena roe im hearing a lot of people thinking that heat can kill the virus is this a myth i thought you believed. There was this motion in our lot of hot areas of the world in florida in phoenix in australia so far what we know i do not think that we should believe that summer is going to make this a vehicle so you cant the heritage you already knew that i mean its. Iran its seeing cases in brazil its summertime down there so yeah i dont get the. Warm weather is going to stop this virus from spreading. You know this is one of the most but i guess one of the cures or treatments or mr thats been going around again and again in various different forms im often people might recognize this fear is i may perceive say what some message will soon online when its like a stanford Hospital Board member says here all the list of things. They can help you all the things that are going to cure coronavirus and whether a Stanford Law School japanese doctor like we saw in that clip before and the picture the show before the philippines talks again and again this is the same thing that were seeing but theres no real source for it so again i did exactly as im speaking to anyone that then saying well those are the guys that we should listen to about still some people believe superfast the virus is manmade and is meant to control population growth going that on twitter go ahead and very quickly so theres a study just came out of it youre i can send it to you its very complex actually i have to make it user friendly but so far all the evidence for us hearing that its not made. I mean this is this is one of those conspiracy theories that we find a lot of people if they believe one Conspiracy Theory that a lot they kind of compound in a snowball so im saying the same train coming from groups that are about Climate Change the conspiracy 5 g. Radio im also going to give everyone cancer and what i think with this is become a particular problem. Online when people who otherwise wouldnt be find other people who believe the same thing as them and i were able to get a Real Community around and done something which were constantly battling in some sort of conspiracy theories and how to talk to those who arent so dull to fame you will seek out at Patton Alister very much for helping us with past and given as real facts about growing a virus kovac 19 that kill my laptop we are not done with a conversation we will all say your questions right here on the stroll at this time to my youve got more questions twitter ask at a stream will be your source of great information. 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