Patient advocate Janee Penington-Watson join Podcast for Healing Neurology host Gillian Ehrlich for this special podcast episode to share our current best understandings & advice for all aspects of this pandemic including how to gauge exposure & risk, testing options & realities, prevention support as well as possible interventions, including those along the cutting edge to keep an eye out for based on the science we currently know about this virus. This is one of two parts to address COVID-19; please see podcast #11 with Matia Indigo Jones for the social, behavioral and mental health aspects of rising to meet this global challenge.

COVID-19 newsletter: https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=42f960988e6a7bd9df6d3287e&id=e4e9eaa302

Resources:

Are there 2 strains instead of one? https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236544-coronavirus-are-there-two-strains-and-is-one-more-deadly/
Types of coronavirus: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html
Testing: LabCorp started testing as of March 5th& is rolling out more widespread testing now. It can still take 4-6 days to get results.
N95 ‘reusable’ use: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/hcwcontrols/recommendedguidanceextuse.html
CDC page about testing: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/testing-in-us.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Ftesting-in-us.html
COVID-19 tracking project: as of 4pm Friday March 13th: 16,500 tests done, 1,953 (+), 13,419 (-) and 1,130 pending; https://twitter.com/covid19tracking
Great article about testing: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/12/21175034/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-usa
Testing in Washington state as an example, came out of Dr Helen Chu’s defiance of federal instructions to move forward with Coronavirus testing despite an eventual ‘cease & desist’ from the feds funding the Seattle Flu Study. https://mynorthwest.com/1758762/coronavirus-washington-seattle-flu-study/
MedScape intervention options: https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/2500114-treatment

#10: COVID-19: Current Understanding & Recommendations with Patient Advocate Janee Pennington-Watson & PHN Host Gillian Ehrlich, DNP, ARNP, IFMCP