Why fighting the coronavirus depends on you - YouTube - 0 views
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bluekoenig on 24 Mar 20Here is a video about the Covid-19 epidemic that details the symptoms, how it's spreading, and how we can and should keep the disease from overwhelming the health system and causing unnecessary deaths. It's slightly out of date with some of its information but it still contains information valuable and universal about this epidemic. Avoidable deaths occur when the health system is overwhelmed by huge amounts of cases in short periods of time and can not care for those who are sick and could be saved as well as people who are in desperate need of hospital care for other reasons like car accidents or shootings. More avoidable deaths occur when more people get sick so the biggest thing that prevents them is preventing the spread of the disease. This means not leaving your home if you are sick or have had contact with someone who was sick, act as though you already have it even if you don't. Social distancing saves lives by preventing avoidable deaths and slowing the pandemic in a way that doesn't overwhelm hospitals with cases, it keeps those with a chance who would have died because they couldn't get medical help alive.