*# UPDATED WITH NEW INFORMATION.

With the big scare and mass panic revolving around the Novel Coronovirus known as COVID-19. I thought it time to do a practical information guide.

1. COVID-19 for all practical purposes is a flu.
   Just like: The Swine Flu (Coronavirus S-OIV), The Avian Flu (Coronavirus H5N1 and H7N9) and The Common Cold (HCoV-OC43). However, COVID-19 is far more contagious.
   People can be carriers and not show or suffer any symptoms of having the virus. Infected people are contagious 48 hours after being infected and remain contaigous for the entire time. Also it is possible to be reinfected with COVID-19 even after having recovered from it.

2. HOW IT SPREADS.

By airborne respiratory droplets (coughs or sneezes).
By touching a contaminated surface (blanket or doorknob).
*By saliva (kissing or shared drinks or food).

3. PREVENTION.

Although there is no vaccine available to prevent infection with the new coronavirus, you can take steps to reduce your risk of infection. WHO and CDC recommend following these precautions for avoiding COVID-19:

Avoid large events and mass gatherings.
Avoid close contact (about 6 feet) with anyone who is sick or has symptoms, And from other people out in public.
Keep distance between yourself and others if COVID-19 is spreading in your community, especially if you have a higher risk of serious illness.
Wash your hands often with soap and hot water for at least 20 seconds, or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol.
Cover your mouth and nose with your elbow or a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw away the used tissue.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth if your hands aren't clean.
Avoid sharing dishes, glasses, bedding and other household items if you're sick.
Clean and disinfect surfaces you often touch on a daily basis.
Stay home from work, school and public areas if you're sick, unless you're going to get medical care.
Avoid taking public transportation if you're sick.
**CDC Recommends wearing facial masks that cover both the mouth and nose. out in public while around other people in which you are closer to than 9 feet, and in enclosed enviroments where the public goes. (I.E.: While food shopping. Especially when at the doctor's office or hospital. Anytime your closer to a person that 9 feet away.).

4. SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS. #(UPDATE: Sunday, April, 26, 2020.).

Signs and symptoms of COVID-19 may appear two to 14 days after exposure and can include:

Fever.
Cough.
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing.
Chills.
Muscle pain.
Headache.
*Loss of taste or smell.

5. WHAT TO DO IF YOU FEEL SYMPTOMS.

YOU NEED TO GO SEE A DOCTOR. Either by going to the Emergency Room, Urgent Care, After Hours Clinic, Insta-Care or Walk-In Clinic or even your regular doctor or one of the special focus COVID-19 Treatment centers that are now being established.

6. TREATMENT.

Currently there is no known cure nor treatment for the virus itself. All current treatments are to treat the symptoms. While there is a lot of success in this approach, it is not 100% and does not substitute for seeing a Doctor and following Medical Advice.

GO SEE A DOCTOR and follow their medical advice.
Drink lots of water and fluids.
Stay Warm (Heat kills, injures or slows down the reproduction and spread of the virus. See number 7 for more info about this.).
Get lots of rest.
*Treat your systems like pain and coughing, take Tylenol, Ibuprofen for pain, like muscle aches or head aches. Take cough medicine to control coughing. Take Mucinex to help relieve congestion. **You may need to have a Doctor prescribed a rescue inhaler to help you breathe, but that is the Doctors decision.

7. HOW TO KILL THE VIRUS.

*Heat. The virus is susceptible to heat. It dies at 140 degrees fahrenheit. However, not in the Human Body. (Since it is impossible to get your core temperature up to 140 degree Fahrenheit.) This only applies to disinfecting surfaces. Like washing clothes. Although for the best results you should wash clothing your worried about in very hot water, with either Bleach or Hydrogen Peroxide. Then dry on a high heat setting immediately. Don't let clothes sit while wet.

*Alcohol, Bleach, Hydrogen Peroxide, Ammonia and Lysol will kill the COVID-19 virus. So cleaning with one or more of these is recommended.

*Alcohol and Hydrogen Peroxide can be used for hands and body. It is recommended to wash like normal, getting rid or washing off all the surface contaminates first. Then applying Alcohol and/or Hydrogen Peroxide. Then air dry. Both can be used together. Just remember this is for external applications, do not drink nor get into your eyes.

*These chemicals can also be used for surface cleaning of counter tops, floors, walls dishes, et cetra. (Although for dish washing, the best thing it to use an automatic dishwasher. Because all current modern dishwashers, heat the water to 150 degrees Fahrenheit.).

**For cleaning solutions: Use HOT water.

1 Cup of Bleach for every 1 Gallon of water.
1 Cup of Ammonia for every 1 Gallon of water.
(You can NOT mix bleach solutions with Ammonia solutions.)

*Lysol comes in aerosol canisters. Spray directly on surface and let air dry.

8. MOST OF ALL.

Be cautious and do NOT panic, stress or be afraid. Panic and fear only spread the virus further, faster and more. Use common sense, and apply the knowledge given here.

As always, when we get new and updated information and we know more. We will be updating this page. So keep checking back.

#(UPDATE: Sunday, April, 5, 2020.)

9. NOTES FOR DOCTORS AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONS.

(NOT TO BE TRIED OR USED AS A HOME REMEDY)

A) There are reports that have show highly positive, successful results in treating COVID-19/SARSCOV2. By using Remdesivir. Since Remdesivir is used to treat SARS and MERS. With COVID-19 Being a SARS type of Coronovirus, Remdesivir seems to work.(Harvard Health and Affiliated Hospitals).

B) There is also research that has shown that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine kills the COVID-19/SARSCOV2 virus in the labatory. And worth trying with patients. Since these are used to treat Malaria symptoms, which are very similar to those of COVID-19. (Harvard Health Sciences).

C) A treatment regime of Remdesivir, Hydroxychloroqunine and Gama Goblin. Has been tried on several patients, who seemed to have gotten better in a more speedy recovery. These patients hanging by a thread, out of options people who had nothing to lose if the experimental treatments didn't work. Early signs of recovery were noted, and patients seemed to get better with a faster recovery rate than other patients.

D) There have been a lot of reports that people with active BCG vaccination are more immune and resistant to getting COVID-19 than people without an active BCG vaccination. (Prof. Kathryn North, director of MCRI. Mary Cooke, Ph.D.. medRxiv.).

It is worth noting that these were all experimental treatments. Further study is being done with these patients. It also is not known if these patients are free and clear of the virus. If they could or will reinfect a second time, or even if their bodies have developed any antibodies to COVID-19. All patients would have been dead for COVID-19 and took desperate chances that the treatments might work.

It is also worth noting that these treatments, might be a way to help keep healthy people from getting COVID-19. However, it is unknown at this time if these treatments would even work as a preventative measure. It is also unknown if such treatments would help slow down the infection rate or the spread of COVID-19.

Although, it just might be worth looking into using a combination of treatments, as in what was done in #C. If anything, these treatments would boost people immunity system. Making the human bodies ability to fight off COVID-19 more successful.

The thinking in all these approaches has been to use drugs that affect the same areas that are affected by COVID-19. The lungs and the breathing. Figuring of you try to boost the immune systems of people with drugs that help people breathe or that were originally designed to treat breathing or similar lung type infections. That maybe a person's immune system will become strong enough to fight off the COVID-19 virus. Since these treatments are from viruses that are all similar to COVID-19 and are from other Coronavirus family members, that they will have some effectiveness in battling the COVID-19 virus. And they seem to be right. These approaches seem to be working. They seem to be slowing the spread and helping people get better from having the COVID-19.

(Update: Saturday, April, 18th, 2020.)

APPROVED AND EFFECTIVE.

E) Remdesivir. In 100% of all cases where patients were given Remdesivir. Patients recovered. Initially 125 patients who were on ventilators were given the experimental medication of Remdesivir. All 125 patients fully recovered. In other cases where Doctors gave Remdesivir to patients who soon would be on ventilators. Those patients recovered and did not need to be placed on ventilators. Yet in more cases where doctors were just trying Remdesivir on patients as a treatment. Those patients fully recovered. And the FDA has approved Remdesivir as a treatment medication for COVID-19.

DANGER LEVEL.

10. COVID-19 is a possible Extinction Level Threat.

Because of the ease of spreading the contagion. The possibility of reinfection, mulitiple times. (Several patients in China, Italy and France, have been reinfected twice after having fully recovered each time.). Combined with peoples general stupidity of not following advice of self isolating, wearing facial masks, social distancing. This could be a disease that never dies down. Since initially in each country outaide of China, a patient Zero initially infected multiple people in terms of dozens of infections with in a matter of 3 days. Those secondary infected people then each went on to infect dozens more within the same time period. Until by the end of the first week you had hundrends of people who were infected.

Current methods of quarantine are not effective, because you have massive volumes of people not even adhering to the standards. Not even following to instructions at all. It is this very behavior that keeps the virus in circulation and keeps the disease in it's currently continuing to spread mode. This not following the quarantine rules is being fueled by two factors. First factor is the politics and the using COVID-19 for political purposes, which is fueling a rebelling against the "other party" mentality. The Second is a conspiracy thinking movement, that see's this pandemic as a way for the "Secret State" or the "Global New World Order" to take over the world by quarantining people.

• End of update information. Further updates will be comming as more information and facts become availible.

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