A long-time North Carolina physician's personal post on COVID-19 went viral on Facebook. He wrote it in response to many questions and concerns he'd been seeing.
“Doc, honestly, is the Corona virus stuff for real or is this all overblown?”
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“Doc, how long is this going to last, we have to reopen the economy?”
He said, "Facts: Yes, the COVID-19 virus is indeed for real and extremely dangerous. It is dangerous because 1). No human has ever gotten it before. It is new. We have no immunity 2). It is highly contagious. You can get and spread the virus without even being sick and it is easily spread by coughing and survives on surfaces for days so you can get it without knowing how and 3). Since it is new we in medicine, don’t know how to treat it. We have no proven medicines. It appears to be much more deadly than the flu. The percentage, we don’t know for sure yet, but that really doesn’t matter at this point, does it? It is bad. People are dying in large numbers."
"We can argue percentages and statistics, but we must slow this thing down to give our doctors and researchers time to see what medicine can help prevent deaths and how to best treat the virus. We will figure it out, but it will take some time. We need that time. Please help us save lives by doing your part."