it is not clear if the threat from coronavirus is any less today than it was a month ago so as Americans are getting back to work I want us right now in this moment to get back to basics how do we protect ourselves joining us now to help us do that dr.
Stavros Chris studious he's a general surgeon and a top doctor with the heritage surgical group in my home state of New Jersey dr.
sorrows first things first what do people need to know when they go out the basic rules to stay safe the most some of the most important stuff is to do the basics you know make merry masks very important both protecting everybody from you and we're protecting you from everybody else making sure you can keep your distancing rules and not just distance but also keeping your exposures iams down try to be less than two minutes in the same room or same place at any time again using drive-throughs as possible keeping your hair covered if possible and also you know we don't recommend using gloves everybody's wearing gloves the problem is the outside of those gloves get contaminated with virus and they're they feel their imprint and invincible in those gloves unfortunately I see kids with their hands covered in finger print finger paints you know ready to just contaminate everything and contaminate themselves so it's better to just keep your hands bare cover them with hand sanitizer any time you touch anything so that I think that's the safer bet what poses the most risk for us when we go out um you know honestly I think it's other people large crowds who people need to be smart and kind of anticipate where you're gonna be if there is going to be a large throughput if there is going to be a large amount of people there other things in terms of even like walking into a restaurant or a public place people don't realize that some of the most contaminated surfaces are actually the floors you have to think of surfaces and other people will touch that even if you go sit in a restaurant you whoever set that that glass there whoever set that silverware there do you have to worry if they were if their hands with you know if they were kid if they're if maybe they've been infected you know using a straw bringing your own silverware maybe actual social norm in the future but when you go to a restaurant would you use a public restroom no no unfortunately you know whoa we do know about the viruses that it's spread by oral fecal route and one of the things that that is being looked into is whether or not that toilet plume of reported years ago that everybody noticed that every time you flush a toilet you get this plume of 8 to 12 feet of you know they studied e.
coli if it's passed by the old fecal route good people flushing the toilet with virus in their stool be creating a cloud of virus in public restrooms it's been discussed we 5xe had discussions with it and it also sounds almost comical but there's science behind it so I would not go into one personally and I'm curious and I do know that some people across the country are looking into it but I'm curious whether or not that could be a place of transmission where there's just a cloud of Kovac waiting as public restrooms for your treating patients you study this virus every day what have you learned about Kovac 19 that you didn't know two months ago oh you know when this first hit us we had nothing we have no idea about the basics of how it infects and it's been a slow burn of constant landmark discoveries about the actual pathology of this virus how it infects where it infects and one of the things that we've been groundbreaking is that this is not necessarily a primary pneumonia or an infection of your lung it actually is more likely showing a lot of its downside of extreme effects on the body through the effects on the blood you know it's an infection of the blood a lot of people are making allergies of treating sick people it's like treating somebody who's been poisoned or somebody who's got carbon dioxide poisoning you know your blood has three major functions immune clotting an oxygen delivery and carbon dioxide delivery and it appears that this virus really hits you on all three fronts and causes a lot of the death and sickness through that mechanism when the Friz first started it was all long and everybody goes on the ventilator then they said wait a minute we're putting people on ventilator it's actually increasing the death rate so they actually brought it back so we're not ventilating everybody in the hospitals so it's important enough then do you share doctor foul cheese optimism about the drug room des aver yeah people need to understand that most diseases aren't treated with a silver bullet and doctors like to I like that idea to the general public that's why I became a surgeon right surgeons generally like to have that silver bullet of surgery makes you better viruses and illnesses think of any infection it's a multi-phase approach the study with the room center here it actually only brought the mortality rate from eleven point eight percent down into the eights so you got now one bullet it's just one more bullet in the multi chamber gun of weapons against the virus if you can get another two or three of those of a three percent decrease in mortality rate and you're going from 11% to 8% and it's going to be phased from eight we could get another one that gets us down to six or five and it's that phase approach that helps reduce your mortality rate and gets to an actually effective treatment regimen so it's the first step it's exciting to see something that's been in science to actually say this is the actual treatment and it's effective and that's I think that's one of the reasons to share share that excitement because hopefully we'll have a few more of these and we're on top of this virus hey there I'm Chris Hayes from MSNBC thanks for watching MSNBC on youtube if you want to keep up to date with the videos we're putting out you can click Subscribe just below me or click over on this list to see lots of other great videos.
