Name: Coronavirus: What health experts say you need to know
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welcome back to CBS this morning in our special hour Corona virus of race to respond.

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So our goal this morning is this to inform you about what we know, where we're headed and how to protect yourself and your family is the virus spreads.

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We're starting to hear firsthand accounts of people directly affected, including passengers who were quarantine on the Diamond Princess cruise ship were made.

My wife and I did Valentine's Day quarantine on the Diamond Princess together.

I had a high fever of 103 plus had a dry cough.

If I wasn't contagious, I would've been back at work.

The next day, the Corona virus swept through the ship.

I ended up testing positive relatively early on in the quarantines, and I was removed from the ship and placed in a hospital in downtown Tokyo, where I spent exactly three weeks.

My experience was, thankfully, very mild.

It's just a sickness, and it will run its course as the virus spreads here in the U.

We brought together a panel of health experts to answer your questions CBS News medical Contributor.

You know her well, Dr Tearing A Rule is back with us.

We're also joined by Michael, Poster home director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

He's a respiratory specialist and global health policy expert.

Can we just talk about the ship for a second?

What do you think when you see that it is a cruel human experiment?

We know the cruise ships facilitate transmission just by the air circulation in the inner cabins and the prince and the Diamond Princess was proof inputting of that and every cruise ship where we have this where you keep people out to sea.

It's just a matter of time before many of them getting ill.

We've got to get him off the ship, get him on land.

If you want to do that to get him off the ship.

Let's talk about the rest of us who aren't on ships because I'm wondering how scared you should be.

I had always thought many people think if you haven't been to Italy, China, South Korea, Italy or any of the affected countries.

And you haven't come in contact with any of those people that you're You're pretty okay, You know, right now we have pretty much a homogeneous viral reactor around the world.

We predicted, ah, a month ago that we would suddenly see activity pick up in the United States.

Today, Seattle has in many cases, as many other than the countries that we've mentioned.

And we're gonna have more Seattle's around the country in just the next few days.

So it's you have to now, just like seasonal influenza.

You have to assume that this is everywhere right now.

And anyone could potentially be infected that way.

In terms of testing, should you only get tested if you have symptoms, should everybody be tested?

Yeah, I think it's an interesting question, and certainly this there was a change this past week, and so basically that change said that anyone can get tested with the permission of their doctor but what we're looking at are people who have the symptoms we know were associated with cove in 19 which is fever, shortness of breath cough in that if you have those symptoms, you should speak to your doctor and let the doctor really get an assessment of your clinical picture what your travel history or exposure history might be, and then make a decision as to whether you should be tested.

And at that point, you know you will be either sent Thio Hospital or, you know, at some point have it done in the clinic when those lab tests become available.

What does the Corona virus actually do to your body?

Any point of entry to the body, the Sinuses, the aural faring.

The lining of those cavities causes local inflammation, and that's when you have symptoms.

That's when you have shortness of breath.

That's when you have cough, runny nose that those and we're also seeing you sometimes have G I symptoms as well.

So that is, that is what's happening at the cellular level.

You always so one of one of the interesting dynamics here is that we're seeing potentially asymptomatic transmission here, where people are not actually demonstrating classic symptoms of cough, shortness of breath fever, but they're able to transmit the disease.

One of the struggles we have and everything Terry said is absolutely correct is we don't have We don't know these emergency tests.

Who knows how they function in the fields?

You're saying what we hope they do, and I hope they're better than what was initially deployed for weeks ago to the States.

But who's to say how they're gonna actually function in the field?

Are we prepared for this to spread across the country?

Well, we're prepared in the sense that we know it's coming, and we know that our health care facilities are going to have a major increase in load.

What is a concern is how prepared are we at the health care level, in particular are prepared, and we're not.

We have 45,000 beds in this country for intensive care medicine and anyone given day they're filled.

Can you Can you get this and you get Can you get this?

Not know you have it and recover without being treated?

In fact, the vast majority of what we now know is is that in the first day of your infection, where you're actually putting virus, you may not even have symptoms that we just heard from Dr Gupta.

But then we know that over the next 3 to 5 days you have this rest of upper respiratory infection just like the flu type of picture.

For some reason, a large, uh, risk is there for people who are over age 55 60 of underlying health problems for the virus, then getting into the lungs and then causing the additional problem.

The vast majority people will never experience that.

They're just gonna have those first couple of days of respiratory something they can't get through it.

Gupta, with a question from a viewer in Minnesota.

I would like to know how long the virus lives on the various surfaces.

You're such a good question, and I think, what we what we know now.

We have studies that so show it depends on ambient temperature number one and then on the surface.

And so, depending on the temperature, it's a 70 degrees you can see you can see foe mites.

Basically, the virus particles live on surfaces like paper or steal upto up to anywhere from two hours to nine days.

But if it's Ambien, if it's a 60 to 70 degrees longer life span that's hotter or colder, shorter.

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