S7E3 - Being On The Medical Frontline During A Pandemic

In this episode we welcome Shelda Holmes, the medical director of Hands on Medicine who tells us what it's like for frontline medical responders during a global pandemic. We talk about how the virus spreads, what we know and don't know, the struggle of individualism vs public health, and the lack of PPE. Shelda shares with us her personal struggles when making decisions that can put her staff at risk, why N95 masks are important for medical staff, and why isolation works to flatten the curve. The big message - stay at home!

COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common in people and many different species of animals, including camels, cattle, cats, and bats. Rarely, animal coronaviruses can infect people and then spread between people such as with MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and now with this new virus (named SARS-CoV-2).

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a betacoronavirus, like MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV. All three of these viruses have their origins in bats. The sequences from U.S. patients are similar to the one that China initially posted, suggesting a likely single, recent emergence of this virus from an animal reservoir.

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