What adults over 60 in particular need to know about coronavirus.
As concerns about the spread of the coronavirus increase around the world, we know Next Avenue readers, like everyone else, continue to be inundated with news stories across the media.
Is this similar to the way an older person might respond to a bad case of influenza or is this worse? In a sense, we’re still what is going to be the best treatment protocol, because compared to influenza — where we have things like Tamiflu and other medications — we don’t yet have anything that we are certain is going to work.
The first thing is to look at facts, not rumors. If you’re in big cities like L.A. and New York City, they have very robust health care systems and public health systems. So, if there is a case that is detected, they are going to be rapidly isolated so they are not a source of infection for others. And the close contacts around those cases will be quarantined for the incubation period of the disease — about 14 days.
I would not take a cruise ship to China at this stage, but personally, I would not be curtailing my travel plans. Everybody has to weigh risks and benefits of anything they do, including being on a cruise ship that might be going into Italy or Japan.
What could be a third scenario is that you start having enough of these [outbreaks] in enough places that the disease does take a foothold globally. And you end up with it being like influenza — kind of always with us, with some seasonality associated with it. And we learn to live with it. At the same time, we start to develop vaccines, which will take a while to look at safety, efficacy and then even come up to scale, but we will have a vaccine that truly takes hold.
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