Assignment 2
Medical realities regarding coronavirus.
No. Myths
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1 Regularly rinsing your nose with saline
help prevent infection with the new
coronavirus.
2 Eating garlic can help to prevent infection
from coronavirus.
3 Can ultraviolet lamps kill the virus?
4 Coronavirus only affects older and very
young people.
5 Are antibiotics effective in preventing and
treating the coronavirus?
6 Can pets at home spread coronavirus?
7 Can spraying alcohol all over your body
kill coronavirus?
8 Are hand dryers effective in killing the
coronavirus?
9 COVID-19 started in the "wet
market" selling live animals in Wuhan, a
city in central China.
10 People who get the coronavirus will die
References:
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/opinion/coronavirus-economy-recession.html
 https://www.nejm.org/coronavirus
 https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-
2019-ncov
Reality
It is not possible because there is some limited
evidence that regularly rinsing nose with saline can
help people recover more quickly from the common
cold. However, regularly rinsing the nose has not
been shown to prevent respiratory infections.
Garlic is healthy and could help in many other cases.
However, there is no evidence that eating garlic has
helped people to prevent infections.
Hand dryers can't kill the virus. Many medical
realities have said that ultraviolet lamps shouldn't be
used to sterilize hands or other areas of the body
because the radiation can irritate skin.
The reality is that viruses affect everyone and are
transmitted through close personal contact with
friends or family members, rather than strangers and
could affect at any age.
Antibiotics are not helpful at all for the prevention
of treating coronavirus because antibiotics are not
used for virus.
There is no evidence that coronavirus is spread by
pets at home. Pets like cats and dogs can get infected
but it is a formal thing to wash hands after getting in
contact with pets.
There are no confirmed reports of this, spraying
such chemicals can be harmful for the body.
To be protected from the coronavirus we should just
our hands frequently and hand dryers can irritate
skin.
Data collection that might definitively prove the
outbreak source is still underway, although
coronaviruses are known to be zoonotic
The death rate for the virus is around 2%, and
officials say that number is expected to fall. People
who get coronavirus will get sick with a mild to
moderate upper respiratory illness, similar to cold.