Name: More answers to your COVID-19 questions
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gonna turn again now to Dr Joe Nash in here for Maur answers to your Corona virus questions.

We've got some great ones that are coming in from our viewers.

Jen, we're going to start with the 1st 1 Is there any correlation between blood type and whether or not you get the virus or how sick you become?

There was a limited study done very early on in this outbreak that showed that people who had type a blood were significantly at greater risk of getting sick with covert 19 than people who had type O blood who were less likely.

It hasn't been peer reviewed, but if there is any truth to it, it does have implications for health care workers.

It's not really for the lay public, but in terms of stratify ing risk of health care workers.

It may be useful but really inconclusive right now.

All right, Our second question, this is a good one.

Does the virus migrate once it's on the skin?

The warning is to keep your hands away from your nose, mouth and eyes.

But what if you touch your cheek or your forehead so the virus doesn't crawl.

But again, let's say it's on your cheek and you just brush your hand over your cheek.

And then two seconds later you touch your eye or your nose or your mouth.

So again, the contact transmission that hand washing is really, really important.

Once it's on your face, it's easy to move it to a place where it could then be, you know, virulent.

All right, here's our third question exact.

Does the latest pneumonia vaccination for seniors helped with symptoms?

Well, that new move Axe vaccine, which is for Numa Cockle pneumonia, is really important for people over the age of 65.

However, that does not protect you against this novel Corona virus.

What it may do is lower your risk of getting pneumonia from multiple pathogens.

Remember people who go to the hospital sick with pneumonia, they can have more than one type of pneumonia.

We hear that with the flu, you can have a viral pneumonia, then with a superimposed bacterial pneumonia.

So not a direct protection, but still important.

We've been talking over the past few days about the nationwide blood shortage and encouraging people, but it's still safe to donate.

Are people giving blood, they ask, required to have a cove in 19 tests and await those results before donating?

But the American Red Cross is taking really, really aggressive additional steps right now in the setting of the pandemic.

So they are checking people's temperatures.

There's no evidence that this covert 19 or novel Corona virus can be transmitted via blood, but they're taking a lot of extra precautions, and we desperately need more blood donation.

So people, if they're interested, can go online, see what testing center is near them and register online.

Now, I was just talking about this because this time of year, so many of us have allergies.

And so our next question is, and I get them every year, seasonally and right about this time of year, so question our next question is where we live.

Pollen and tree mold allergies are in full swing.

How can you tell if sneezing, coughing and sore throat are just allergies versus a case of covert 19.

The first thing is, Amy, no one knows you better than you.

So if something feels bizarre to you, that's when your radar index of suspicion should go up.

You should start paying attention maybe a little more closely.

The other thing is that Cove it 19 really has such a massive range of symptoms.

They may have no symptoms, so they don't know they're infected.

The classic ones are are easy to spot fever, cough fatigue, some chest pain.

If it's severe in terms of respiratory issues, but the other common cold or allergy like symptoms, people can have those two.

And that's why all circles back to testing.

We need to be able to test so many people so we can get a grip, because remember, you can have two things at the same time.

You could have allergies and you could have Corona virus, right?

Why is it so different from person to person?

Is that how most viruses act and react differently from human to human there?

There's so much about this virus that we're still learning.

It's not even really three months old yet, but in general we even see that with influenza.

Not everyone gets massively ill and bedridden for 7 to 10 days with flu.

Some people have more mild symptoms, so there's always a spectrum.

We call it a FINA type of a virus, and we're seeing a huge one with this one for sure.

All right, and speaking of test, our next question surrounds that.

Do the tests have to be taken up your nose, or are there other ways?

The good news is that there are other ways that we will be seeing very, very soon in days, two weeks.

But right now, the only test that's widely in circulation is a nasal swab.

And Amy, it needs to go all the way back there, so it's pretty uncomfortable, but you're gonna be seeing self swab ing in the nose.

They do an aural for NGO swab down the throat, which always causes people to cough and gag.

But we're gonna be seeing finger pricks and eventually blood tests for serology to see if we have antibodies against this.

So we're gonna be seeing a lot of options in the realm of testing.

Hopefully, as soon as as soon as the FDA approves these other methods, we need to see them, as we say in medicine, stat.

And if you have your questions for Dr Ashton, you can send them to her Instagram at Dr J.

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