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New York City hospitals are really desperate for supplies and ventilators. This is a serious issue. What has been learned about how the virus behaves? We’ve learned a lot. Compared to Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) in 2002, that dampened down within six, eight months, but that did not have asymptomatic transmission to other people. This virus does transmit asymptomatically. This virus has a relatively high ? what’s called reproductive number, which is just a measure if I get infected, how many people on average do I spread it to? We’ve learned that while children do not get as severely ill or die from it, younger adults certainly do, and they have a misperception about the severity of the disease. We’ve also learned how this virus causes disease and in whom ? in the older adults, in PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES: You’ve got to practise good hand-washing and sanitation. So you pump your gas, you sanitise your hands. You go out to people who have corresponding shop, you don’t touch your face. You don’t come into your home or into your car until you’ve sanitised your hands. medical problems that increase their risk. tay-at-home orders, to stay the course here. We need to profound. You simply cannot get Are there more confirmed How long can the virus live? how the virus that causes work together. We need to be logical. infected with this virus if you don’t cases because of more testing A number of studies have been Covid-19 behaves, and And then we need to watch, wait, be breathe it in or you don’t introduce it or because the infection is done. These show that you can detect specific surfaces the virus informed by the best data that we to your body with your fingers. You spreading? the virus off of hard surfaces, public lives on make up some of can get. run the lowest risk of either of those I think both are happening at surfaces for as long as 17 days. When Sthe many questions that Dr Gregory happening by being distant from the same time. Certainly, in places they went back into the Diamond Poland, an infectious diseases expert How important is it to keep people, not being in public areas, like New York City, we are seeing Princess, this ship had been empty and Director of Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine people home? working from home, whatever it an explosion in cases. In places for 17 days. And yet, they could Research Group answers. That’s part of bending this curve, takes to prevent person-to-person like South Korea, that started find the virus. It really depends on or flattening the curve is another transmission, and consistent hand- about the same time we did. They the temperature. It depends on the When will social distancing term used. The idea is simple but washing. clamped down with restrictions humidity ? depends on exposure to and stay at home restrictions UV light. I think the key thing is this end? is not some exotic virus that is hard to I try to explain to people that there inactivate. This is readily inactivated is a lag period. What we’re seeing by dilute bleach solutions and now reflects the disease transmission appropriate disinfectants. that occurred two to four weeks ago. Because we are still in the midst of What are the types of this, the reality of it is we have to wait surfaces the virus can live on? until that curve begins to bend down Anything that somebody who and then wait another two to four is infected touches, the virus can weeks before we can say, ‘Probably survive on that surface. It looks all clear.’ like plastic, stainless steel tend to be surfaces where it lasts longer. Is there concern about relaxing All it says to us is you’ve got to restrictions too soon? practise good hand-washing and I think every scientist and sanitation. So you pump your gas, physician who has talked about you sanitise your hands. You go out this has said the same thing. Now is to shop, you don’t touch your face. not the time to talk about relaxing You don’t come into your home or restrictions. We have not yet reached into your car until you’ve sanitised the peak of what this pandemic LASTING LONGER: Anything that somebody who is infected touches, the virus can survive on that surface. It looks your hands. can and will do in the US. We need like plastic, stainless steel tend to be surfaces where it lasts longer. – Mayo Clinic News Network 4 GULF TIMES Monday, March 30, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Contagion of anxiety This pandemic is throwing into stark relief a treacherous fact: we depend on employment, both for survival and a sense of self, writes Josh Cohen STARK REALITY: A composite photograph showing signs on shop fronts at Streatham High Road in south London. The chance to live at our own pace and rediscover the pleasures and possibilities of free can only be had when work ceases to be a matter of survival — Josh Cohen, professor of modern literary ‘ theory at Goldsmiths, University of London ’ Monday, March 30, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY ffices empty, restaurants and cafes closed, performance venues dark, schools and universities shut Odown. Across the world, numerous industries have entered a state of suspended animation, imposing a sharp and involuntary brake on the working lives of millions of people. This week, having moved my psychoanalytic practice online, I’ve sat in an empty consulting room talking to patients via video-conference, many of them struggling to process what life in the shadow of Covid-19 might mean in the short- and longer- term. Some are lamenting the lost sense of belonging they derive from their workplaces, as well as the claustrophobia of being shut in with partners and children. For others, the fear is more immediate: oneself or a loved one becoming ill and unable to work, the demise of a business, the contraction or total erosion of a livelihood. And lurking behind all these grim prospects, ensuring I’m not immune from this rapid contagion of anxiety, is the possibility that my psychoanalytic practice may be sacrificed to this grim new financial reality.