The latest advice on staying safe during the coronavirus pandemic.
If I’m older, do I have to stay inside all the time?
It’s hard to generalize, Marrazzo said, because “some 70-year-olds run marathons, so you can’t make a blanket statement about people’s risks.” Butsuch as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease and diabetes raise people’s risks of becoming severely ill or dying of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. And even healthy seniors, she said, “don’t get a complete pass” on increased risk.
Some experts say there may be drawbacks as well as benefits to wearing masks. Raven says it may give people a false sense of security and result in a lessening of social distancing. If a mask is uncomfortable, others say, it may prompt you to touch your face more — and accidentally infect yourself if your finger is contaminated. Also, they said, there are some indications the moisture that collects may encourage a buildup of viruses and bacteria on a cloth mask.It depends.
If you are living with someone who needs help, you should wear a mask and gloves while providing care. If you are removing a dinner plate, for example, grab it with a dishrag or wear gloves, doctors say.we now know the disease has a far wider range of symptoms than initially thought. In addition to fever, coughing, shortness of breath and other flu-like symptoms, doctors are seeing gastrointestinal problems — nausea and vomiting, for example — chest pain and a loss of smell.
If symptoms get worse, and you have trouble breathing or have underlying medical conditions, seek immediate medical care.and even what hospital or health system you use. Some patients will have much more access to testing than others. At UCSF, for example, the testing has ramped up sharply in recent days in the hospital and outpatient clinics, Raven said. But the health system doesn’t test people who don’t have symptoms — the so-called worried well.
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