19/03/2020
*VERY VERY IMPORTANT*
Let's make things clear about Corona virus causing COVID-19.
80-90% people will have no or mild symptoms like fever, dry cough, flue like symptoms and tiredness. These 80-90% people will eventually recover and nothing needs to be done for them except for Paracetamol and rest.**
The people more at risk are immunocompromised like old age (>65 years), people who are immunosuppressive drugs for any underlying background conditions (Cancers, SLE, RA, IBD etc etc), people who have underlying lungs condition (asthma, COPD, bronchitis, fibrosis etc).
Now if you take the population curve of any country, many of the people who have underlying problems are just 10-15%. The rest all are healthy individuals.
80% of you who are reading this, if you catch this virus, won't be affected much except for cough, common cold or flue like symptoms. The only thing you need to do is ISOLATE ISOLATE ISOLATE yourself please for at least 7 days because you are more likely to pass this to as many people surrounding you, within 2 metres of distance, as you can. And among them there could be your old age parents/grandparents, or your cousins having cancer or your nephews/nieces having asthma, this is definitely going to affect them, probably fatally!
The most important message of this post is DON'T PANIC because most of us will catch it like a common cold and get rid of it with just Paracetamol and rest. The only thing we can do as our part is to stop spreading this to the people who are more vulnerable and at risk and save their lives at least.
Key points:
1. DON'T PANIC
2. ISOLATE IF YOU CATCH IT
**doctors please don't panic if you are made to work with/without PPE. If you catch it, the symptoms will definitely be very mild. But please don't work for at least 7 days if you have symptoms, because you'll spread it to 100 others and that could be fatal.
