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CORONAVIRUS: COMPULSIVE CLEANING & TIPS
Hello Everyone: The more one learns about Coronavirus, the more obsessive (and paranoid) one becomes. Compulsive cleaning and disinfecting seems more and more logical—especially as we hear of outbreaks in entire families, church choirs, cruise ships and Congress. Invading through the nose/ mouth/ eyes, Covid-19 stabs into your lungs’ air sacs, multiplying and thickening their one-cell thick walls to stop oxygen transfer. New reports indicate that other organs are attacked too. Stay-at-Home and Stay Safe. Best, Howard Wong, AIA
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KHON TV: How to properly disinfect surfaces to prevent spreading coronavirus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgIMA5TVEoE
MSNBC: Many common household cleaning products can kill the coronavirus if you use them properly
https://www.nbcnews.com/better/lifestyle/many-common-household-cleaning-products-can-kill-coronavirus-if-you-ncna1160271
WIRED: How to Clean and Disinfect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Stuff
https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-disinfectant-cleaning-guide/
Note: Face Mask guidelines are in flux. In Asia, simple cloth masks and surgical (non-N95) face masks have been common for years—just for protection from catching/ spreading common colds.
NBC TV: Grocery Shopping Tips During the Coronavirus Pandemic https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/grocery-shopping-tips-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic/2263007/
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SCARY GROCERIES: HOW TO SAFELY MANAGE GROCERIES DELIVERED TO YOU
Great video by a doctor in Michigan—more like an operating room approach but worth considering tips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjDuwc9KBps&=&feature=youtu.be
HIGHLIGHTS: Better safe than sorry and not taking any chances.
Assume viruses stay on grocery surfaces for 3 days. Leave nonperishable groceries outside for 3 days (garage, porch, deck, entryway…) to increase chances of ridding virus. Use gloves to bring the groceries into your home. Delivered groceries should be left outside by delivery person—for you to manage safely.
CONTAINERS
All unnecessary external packaging should be discarded. For bagged produce, if two people are available, one person can open the refrigerator’s crisper and the other can dump in the vegetables, disposing of the bag. Items like bread can be placed in sterile storage containers. Coronavirus can live on cardboard for 24 hours, but no human hands have touched interior packaging, e.g. remove cereal bag and throw away the box itself. If you’re buying groceries for someone else, consider removing the groceries from their external containers and putting them in a cloth bag. For items whose container can’t be removed, sanitize the groceries first and then put them into the bag.
STERILE TECHNIQUE
Dr. VanWingen recommends applying a method called sterile technique — used by health-care professionals to prevent the spread of infection within a hospital — to sterilize food. Before bringing groceries inside, designate a clean side and a dirty side of a table, sanitizing the clean half with any standard disinfectant. Then place the groceries on the dirty side of the table.
“Imagine that the groceries that you have are covered with some glitter, and your goal at the end of this is to not have any glitter in your house, on your hands, or especially on your face,” he says.
Using a sanitizing towel, he says to “make sure your rag is good and saturated with disinfectant” and start wiping everything down. More hard plastic things, like medication bottles, can be sprayed directly and then wiped down. “Now, you wanna wipe off the areas that you think humans’ hands were touching a bit more liberally than the areas that you don’t think human hands have touched,” he says. FRUIT: Wash like you would wash your hands — for 20 seconds per piece of fruit, in soapy water.
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MOVIE CLIP: “Outbreak” (1995)—The Virus is Airborne Scene https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=movie+scene+in+outbreak+%22it%27s+airborne%22#id=1&vid=432e9e10ac91fca92d0c4bf80b8d2bb7&action=click
MOVIE TRAILER: “Contagion” (2011) https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=Awr9Ilfq4odeZ.UA6SZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByNWU4cGh1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw–?p=from+contagion&fr=mcafee#id=2&vid=f0d174d5f4c7b8efc6f2a3072097b349&action=view

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VIROLOGIST EXPERT ADVICE: CORONAVIRUS PRECAUTIONS
James Robb, MD UC San Diego, is a virologist who’s worked with COVID for almost 50 years. Robb predicts the next 2-weeks will be significant. Feel free to copy and send to family & friends his advice about what he is doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic:
“Dear Colleagues, as some of you may recall, when I was a professor of pathology at the University of California San Diego, I was one of the first molecular virologists in the world to work on coronaviruses (the 1970s). I was the first to demonstrate the number of genes the virus contained. Since then, I have kept up with the coronavirus field and its multiple clinical transfers into the human population (e.g., SARS, MERS), from different animal sources. The current projections for its expansion in the US are only probable, due to continued insufficient worldwide data, but it is most likely to be widespread in the US by mid to late March and April.
“Here is what I have done and the precautions that I take and will take. These are the same precautions I currently use during our influenza seasons, except for the mask and gloves.:
1) NO HANDSHAKING! Use a fist bump, slight bow, elbow bump, etc.
2) Use ONLY your knuckle to touch light switches. elevator buttons, etc.. Lift the gasoline dispenser with a paper towel or use a disposable glove.
3) Open doors with your closed fist or hip – do not grasp the handle with your hand, unless there is no other way to open the door. Especially important on bathroom and post office/commercial doors.
4) Use disinfectant wipes at the stores when they are available, including wiping the handle and child seat in grocery carts.
5) Wash your hands with soap for 10-20 seconds and/or use a greater than 60% alcohol-based hand sanitizer whenever you return home from ANY activity that involves locations where other people have been.
6) Keep a bottle of sanitizer available at each of your home’s entrances. AND in your car for use after getting gas or touching other contaminated objects when you can’t immediately wash your hands.
7) If possible, cough or sneeze into a disposable tissue and discard. Use your elbow only if you have to. The clothing on your elbow will contain infectious virus that can be passed on for up to a week or more!
“What I have stocked in preparation for the pandemic spread to the US:
1) Latex or nitrile latex disposable gloves for use when going shopping, using the gasoline pump, and all other outside activity when you come in contact with contaminated areas. Note: This virus is spread in large droplets by coughing and sneezing. This means that the air will not infect you! BUT all the surfaces where these droplets land are infectious for about a week on average – everything that is associated with infected people will be contaminated and potentially infectious. The virus is on surfaces and you will not be infected unless your unprotected face is directly coughed or sneezed upon. This virus only has cell receptors for lung cells (it only infects your lungs) The only way for the virus to infect you is through your nose or mouth via your hands or an infected cough or sneeze onto or into your nose or mouth.
2) Stock up now with disposable surgical masks and use them to prevent you from touching your nose and/or mouth (We touch our nose/mouth 90X/day without knowing it!). This is the only way this virus can infect you – it is lung-specific. The mask will not prevent the virus in a direct sneeze from getting into your nose or mouth – it is only to keep you from touching your nose or mouth.
3) Stock up now with hand sanitizers and latex/nitrile gloves (get the appropriate sizes for your family). The hand sanitizers must be alcohol-based and greater than 60% alcohol to be effective.
4) Stock up now with zinc lozenges. These lozenges have been proven to be effective in blocking coronavirus (and most other viruses) from multiplying in your throat and nasopharynx. Use as directed several times each day when you begin to feel ANY “cold-like” symptoms beginning. It is best to lie down and let the lozenge dissolve in the back of your throat and nasopharynx. Cold-Eeze lozenges is one brand available, but there are other brands available. ‘
“I, as many others do, hope that this pandemic will be reasonably contained, BUT I personally do not think it will be. Humans have never seen this snake-associated virus before and have no internal defense against it. Tremendous worldwide efforts are being made to understand the molecular and clinical virology of this virus. Unbelievable molecular knowledge about the genomics, structure, and virulence of this virus has already been achieved. BUT, there will be NO drugs or vaccines available this year to protect us or limit the infection within us. Only symptomatic support is available.
“I hope these personal thoughts will be helpful during this potentially catastrophic pandemic. You are welcome to share this email. Good luck to all of us! Jim James Robb, MD”
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PBS VIDEO: What This Chart Actually Means for COVID-19 https://www.pbs.org/video/what-this-chart-actually-means-for-covid-19-ybsbtd/
THIS WEEK IN ASIA: Why are there so few coronavirus infections in Singapore’s health workers? https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3077345/coronavirus-why-so-few-infections-singapores-health
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ECONOMIST: “Lessons from Spanish Flu”—Data from the 1918 pandemic in America suggest that places with the tightest restrictions fared best in increases in manufacturing employment.
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HEALTH TIPS 



HUFFPOST: Can Coronavirus Live On Shoes And Be Brought Into Our Homes? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-on-shoes-brought-into-homes_l_5e7a5843c5b6f5b7c54c3786
MODERN SURVIVAL GUIDE: Bleach Water Ratio For Disinfecting: Make Your Own Disinfectant https://modernsurvivalblog.com/health/disinfectant-bleach-water-ratio/
RUSH MEDICAL: 8 Tips for Healthy Lungs https://www.rush.edu/health-wellness/discover-health/8-tips-healthy-lungs
GUARDIAN: Do breathing exercises really work? UK doctors on how to protect against coronavirus – and manage symptoms https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/apr/08/from-vitamin-c-to-breathing-exercises-doctors-on-what-you-should-really-do-for-your-health-right-now
HEALTHLINE: 15 Foods Boost Immune System https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/foods-that-boost-the-immune-system
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AMAZING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Science fiction is closer to reality than ever before. At no time in human history have global collaborative innovations, shared often in real time, been poised to mitigate and cure disease, and transform life. The community of scientists and technocrats have become a global unifying force, with more societal value than traditional political institutions. Human intelligence and intellect, in concert, is boundless.
PUBLIC PRESS: Startups/Testing https://sfpublicpress.org/news/2020-04/bay-area-startups-push-to-ramp-up-californias-covid-19-testing-efforts
TED VIDEO: How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA :https//www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_doudna_how_crispr_lets_us_edit_our_dna
GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT: Fighting the coronavirus outbreak with genetic sequencing, CRISPR & synthetic biology https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/03/10/fighting-the-coronavirus-outbreak-with-genetic-sequencing-crispr-and-synthetic-biology/
STOPPING SPREAD = Early Diagnosis + Tracking + Isolation + Treatment
PREVENTION = Universal Masking + Hand Hygiene + Social-Distancing
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“We stay here for you. Please stay home for us.”
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