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Covid-19 and Your Body

4/27/2020

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Covid-19 has been in the news for quite some time now and just in case you were interested in knowing a bit more on how it interacts with your body here is a little of what we have learned so far.

First symptoms that appear could be any combination of fever, fatigue, dry cough, and shortness of breath. Symptoms will vary with each person; there is more information on symptoms that medical professionals are seeing as a pattern that may be established as regular symptoms in the future.Transmission of the virus is easy and is spread through respiratory droplets produced by the cough, sneeze or breath of an infected person.

Though a person may not feel ill during the initial two weeks of infection, the virus is hard at work in the lungs. The job of the virus cells is to make the healthy cells of our body regenerate more virus cells. Why is it so important to be cautious during this time of social distancing? The transmission of the virus is still possible from person to person even if the infected individual does not seem sick.

After symptoms have set in, they may feel flu-like and mild at first. Over the days that pass, symptoms will continue to worsen; the primary place that will be affected will be your throat, beyond this point it will work its way down into the respiratory airways causing inflammation and a persistent cough.

This virus has the potential to cause an individual to develop pneumonia. If the virus makes its way down into the lower respiratory tract before a person has sought medical assistance, there will be complications in the functions in the passing of oxygen to the blood, a vital function for all parts of our body. After pneumonia has set in, the individuals age, underlying medical conditions and the severity of the virus will play a role in recovery.

The main thing our dedicated medical professionals can do for a sick individual that has been hospitalized is provide supportive care. So, the best thing we can be doing is protecting ourselves right now, staying safe and keep the social distancing practices we have been observing. Stay safe San Antonio, keep about your health in mind as we get through this together. 

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Tips on Working from Home

4/19/2020

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Are you still working from home? Some were happy in the beginning but found it to be a bit of a challenge. Your surroundings are obviously different and that can prove to be hard to stay focused and be productive. Here are some tips on what you can do to help keep up with your work.
 
  • Make sure to create a space that you dedicate for work, such as a desk, corner of your living room or guest room for the time being. It will be easier for you to associate the time you are spending in that space with your work tasks if you have a dedicated space for work.
  • Have set “hours” that you work. If your job doesn’t preset these for you and gives you the choice to set them, do yourself a favor and keep a schedule that you can follow. You will already be used to following a schedule at work, just make an extension of that.
  • Take advantage of your surroundings while you can. Since you are at home, make some awesome food and watch a show on your lunch. Chances are, you probably don’t get to do that all the time, so do it while you can.
  • Don’t forget to take breaks! Since you are at home, you may find that you don’t get up from your new office space (couch) and forget to get up and move your muscles. Set a timer to remind yourself to get up and take a walk around the house or walk the dog for the 3rd time today and get your blood pumping.
  • Stay positive. Even to the most optimistic of the introverts who have been enjoying all the inside and work-from-home time, there still may still be overwhelming feelings of being cooped up. Reach out to friends and family members by phone, video chat, stay in touch with each with other to keep from feeling isolated.
 
Enjoy the sunshine from the safety of your yard and know that we are in this together and this will not last forever. Stay safe, stay healthy. 

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April 12th, 2020

4/12/2020

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​San Antonio Flattening the Curve
 
Our community is very anxious to get back to our regular lives and is growing a bit tired of being quarantined, and it may be statistically reasonable that most people will contract the coronavirus (most not seriously ill), flatting the curve might involve just getting back to normal. There are a few things we must consider when we jump back into “being normal”.
 

There might be a misconception that if most of the people that reside in San Antonio were to contract the coronavirus that herd immunity would start to take effect and therefore, slow the spread of the virus any further and that would resolve our issues. There are two ways of building immunity to a virus: naturally contracting and successfully fighting it off, and through a vaccine.
 
At the rate that new cases have been shown to spread, allowing people to contract the virus naturally and let their body build an immunity to it would be too risky for numerous reasons. In order to build immunity in this way, one would have to contract the virus, unlike a vaccine. This would put a considerable strain on the health care system here in San Antonio. Would we have enough doctors, nurses, and medical equipment to go around? For how long?
 
While herd immunity has been shown to be very beneficial in several circumstances, there are safe ways of going about building immunity (vaccines). There are still ongoing studies of developing a vaccine for the virus that causes Covid-19, but nothing has been finalized just yet. If there were to be a vaccine that were to come out in the future, healthy individuals of our community would receive it in order to provide protection to our residents that are too ill to receive the vaccine. This would be our “herd immunity” for our residents in San Antonio.
 
So, before we all rush back to our “normal” lives again, please consider the facts:
Before you can build immunity, you must contract the virus There is no vaccine for the virus that causes Covid-19 yet We must consider that we don’t know how each of us will react to the virus if we contract it The infection rate is very rapid and would strain our health care system possibly beyond what it could stand It is still unknown if someone can contract the virus more than once  
Be safe and think about what your current decisions will impact later San Antonio. We are all in this together. 

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Q&A Session with Dr. Butt & Dr. Williams

4/3/2020

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