COVID LESSON OVERVIEW PODCAST

Lesson 1 Overview Transcript

Greetings, I’m your host Hu, a dually licensed behavioral scientist in California with an agglomeration of bizarre escapades from more than 6 decades of extraordinarily enjoyed enlightening experiences on my earthly expidtion. Welcome aboard this ship of fools we, that being me and myself, hail the Hu-mor Hulabaloo!

This is the healthcare avisory for healthy healthcare workers, working in healthy health care settings who want to stay health and keep their friends, family and patients healthy.

Today’s Topic!

Its chronically, pervasively, ubiquitously in the news and in our lives. Most importantly how can we end this endless infiltration and get COVID-19 out of our face!

It’s your COVID-19 infection avoidance algorithm.

First some clarification.

From here on, I will refer to COVID-19 simply as COVID and although COVID actually refers to the disease caused by the virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 or SARS-CoV-2, in this training at times I use COVID to refer to the virus itself.

I also use the term asymptomatic to describe both infected individuals without symptoms who do not later develop symptoms and infected individuals who are presymptomatic at that particular time.

Infection control strategies come in a variety of situation dependent formats. Due to the recency of COVID we also rely on infection control studies of other diseases, as we just don’t know enough COVID yet, even though research is being performed, documented and published at an astronomical pace.

Per Killingly and Nguyen-Van-Tam, “...all routes of transmission (droplet, aerosol and contact) have a role to play; their relative significance will depend on the set of circumstances acting at a given time....”

Unfortunately that astronomical gait generated virtually no viral gastronomical avoidance studies.

So to get this thing out of our face, we’ll, well I’ll talk specifically on eliminating unintended self-inoculation via contact transmission of the hand to face type. This will be based on available research reviewed, my experiences as a Behavioral Scientist personally trying a variety of contact reduction suggestions, and rapid analysis of the most promising practices.