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Get the facts on corona virus

Cases of corona virus continue to climb it's easy to be scared and false claims you want to proceed with some level of concern or caution, but it is it doesn't warrant the excitement that I think that some people are feeling. 

Dr. Michelle Baron is the medical director of infection prevention at UC help Rachel Herlihy is the state communicable disease epidemiologist at the Colorado Department. In Public Health and environment here in Colorado. The risk currently is low and that's really because we don't have ongoing transmission first up. What would a quarantine look like in Colorado? So if the fish concert was happening perhaps that would be asked to be canceled. So a lot of it is what we call social distancing where you just don't have hundreds of people or thousands of people in mass close to each other we've seen diseases spread around the world before what? If we learn from that to help us prepare for Corona virus some things like SARS planning MERS that 2009 H1N1 pandemic even preparing for Ebola in 2014. Yeah, I think really the most important thing is making sure that people have access to reliable sources and information finally a question. We've heard from a lot of people is it safe to order packages from China when you shop online? 

So this virus doesn't survive in the environment like that for an extended time so we don't believe that that shipping.

Judges would pose a risk We also asked if we might expect flights to stop or schools to close if the virus spreads. More than expected they say well anything is possible at this point.


The flu is more of a threat than corona virus to people in Colorado and the precautions are the same. So if folks want to start washing her hands disinfecting surfaces come when they're totally to start preparing exactly. Alright. Thank you. 

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