Hello and
welcome to a very special
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Secrets Unsealed program.
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My name is C.A. Murray, and
it is my privilege and pleasure
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to welcome you to a
time where we're going to
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ask you to listen very closely.
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You'll want to pull out that
iPad or get a pencil and paper,
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or however you
want to take notes.
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But we've got some
information that we know is
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going to be of import to you.
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I'm in the company of
our president and founder
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and speaker,
Pastor Stephen Bohr.
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Pastor, good to have you here.
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Good to be here.
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You will note right away we are
practicing social distancing.
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We are not that
close to each other.
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We are close to each other in
heart, but not physically today.
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And you will
forgive us for that.
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But we're going to be talking
about the coronavirus COVID-19.
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And so we're trying to
model what we're speaking about
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in a very, very
real and practical way.
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Our guest is a
very special individual.
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He carries with him a
very particular and unique
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portfolio and perspective.
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So he's going to say some things
that you will want to hear
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that you may want to
write down and refer to
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in the coming weeks,
coming days, coming months.
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He is chairman of the
Secrets Unsealed board.
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So we thank him for that.
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He is also a medical doctor.
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He also has a
connection with the CDC,
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and we'll try to dig into
that just a little bit more.
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He is the health
officer for Kings County.
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He has been for, I think
you told me 30 years or so,
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an emergency room physician.
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So he's got a lot
of history behind this,
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and he has a lot of
years of practice and study.
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So what he has to say is
going to be very important,
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very, very germane to
where we are in the world
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and in society today.
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He is a Christian. And
we praise the Lord for that.
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And he is a practicing
Seventh-day Adventist.
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You can't do
much better than that;
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to have a doctor
who knows the Lord
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and knows how to pray
and how to talk to Jesus.
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He is Dr. Milton Teske.
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Good doctor,
good to have you here.
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It's a privilege to be here.
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Yeah, and as we said,
he is no stranger to us
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because he's
chairman of the board.
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So he kind of tells
the pastor what to do.
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- Sometimes. - And
the pastor promptly obeys.
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Amen and amen.
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As we said, we're going to
be talking about the COVID-19
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coronavirus which is so
much on everybody's mind
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and in the news, and
there is so much worry, so much
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trauma and drama in the
minds of so many people.
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We want to demythologize
some of this stuff today.
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We want to sort of
pull the wraps off and talk
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with Dr. Teske because he
does have a unique perspective.
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He comes from a
unique place, and we want to
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talk to him a
little bit more about that.
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Before we go into the
actual virus, good doctor,
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would you tell us what
your working with the CDC is?
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And tell us a little bit
about being the health officer
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for, is it Kings County?
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~ Yes. - Yeah.
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As the health officer,
I am the key individual
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for our county in terms
of dealing with any issues
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that have to do with the
public health of the community.
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And normally we take
care of STD outbreaks and
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things like tuberculosis, which
is a threat to the community,
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as well as various
environmental threats.
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But right now this
new coronavirus pandemic
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has totally taken over
and occupied pretty much
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all of our time all day long.
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Double time from what we
normally spend, you know,
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working and trying to battle
this and do everything we can
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to protect the community from
this very deadly virus threat
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that is hitting us here.
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I will be on phone
calls, conference phone calls,
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with the California
Department of Public Health
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multiple times a week.
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I will be on conference
phone calls with the CDC
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back in Atlanta,
Georgia every week.
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And also we get what
they call, presidential calls
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where we meet
with the head of FEMA,
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Health and Human Services,
and other members of the
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coronavirus team
out of Washington, D.C.
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We all work together to
come up with the best plans
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and strategies to try
to stop this pandemic,
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to lessen its
affect on everybody and
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do everything we can.
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In the United
States, public health policy
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is really done on a local
jurisdiction basis, you know.
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We have over 60 jurisdictions
here in California.
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And each jurisdiction is
responsible for all of the
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action in terms of
public health in their area.
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It's directed on the state level
and supported by the national
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work at the CDC
and in Washington, D.C.
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But it's really a local
jurisdiction type activity,
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and everything is
done on a local level
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under the direction of the State
Department of Public Health.
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~ Now I hasten to add,
you're not here to speak
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for the CDC, but it
should be mentioned that you get
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briefings and information
from that body regularly, daily.
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~ Yeah, we get all of the...
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I know what's going to be on
news that evening before you do.
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Sometimes we get an emergency
page, "Call in immediately.
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We've got this
emergency," because the governor
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is ready to make an
announcement in an hour,
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you know, type of thing.
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But they always let
us know ahead of time
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what's coming down.
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And they give us time to
put input and stuff into it.
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In California, the recent
lockdown, we don't use the
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term, "lockdown," but
the shelter in place order
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for the state, then the
CDPH comes in and sort of
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redefines a lot of things
about what are the critical
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sectors, and which ones
are exempt, and under what
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conditions are they exempt,
and what are the details.
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We're often in the position
of defining and interpreting
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and putting that out
there, you know, to the public
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as to how do we go about obeying
the governor's executive order
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to shelter in place?
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What does that mean to
you, and in your business,
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and in this business?
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And indeed, there are
provisions fortunately
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that allow Secrets Unsealed to
continue in its vital function
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of communication to the public
and carry on its work right here
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under proper measures.
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For which Pastor Bohr praises
the Lord, and we all do to.
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Amen. You better believe it.
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So nothing would come
down county wide that will not
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go through you, or pass by you,
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or certainly that you
would not be aware of.
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We would be aware of it.
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Well, pastor, I
guess we need to delve into
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what exactly is the coronavirus?
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How is it transmitted?
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All of those kinds of things.
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Is there anything particular
you want to start out with
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before we move on?
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Yeah, I think people
might be interested, Dr. Teske,
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in the physiology
of the coronavirus
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and how it actually works.
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~ Yeah, okay.
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So I think we have a
picture here of the coronavirus.
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And it's
structured like a giant ball.
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When I say, "giant,"
it's extremely microscopic.
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But there is this
ball, and the ball is studded
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with all of these little
spikes sticking out of there.
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These little spikes sticking out
have a very special function.
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They are the ones that actually
allow it to attach to a cell
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and infect that cell.
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Inside the center of the ball
are certain important enzymes
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for it to carry on
its work, and the code.
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It's an RNA molecule
that has the code for
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all of the
proteins to build a virus,
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as well as the various proteins
that are going to help it
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in that building process.
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And so what happens is, when
that virus comes and touches
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a surface of a cell,
those little spikes stick in.
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And because of their function,
they actually open a hole
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and they inject the code
and these enzymes into the cell.
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Once inside the cell they take
over, they hijack the normal
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machinery of a cell.
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And instead of the cell making
all of the components that the
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cell needs to do for
whatever that particular cell
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was going to do, now
it uses the same machinery
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to read the code from the virus
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and it starts
building viral proteins.
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It starts building
proteins to make up the wall.
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It starts building
the enzymes it needs,
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and it starts building
those little spike proteins,
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and it starts
assembling viruses.
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And very shortly the
cell is full of hundreds,
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thousands, of
viruses that it has built.
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And of course, at a certain
point there are certain enzymes
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that actually start
destroying the cell wall,
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cutting holes in the
cell wall, and now the viruses
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can be released
outside of the cell.
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And of course, the cell
rapidly moves on into a process
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of cellular death and
disintegrates at that point.
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But now we have
thousands of viruses
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that go out and infect
other cells next to it.
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~ Now you used the term,
and I hate to cut you off,
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but I think this
is very fascinating,
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this virus comes in and hijacks
the machinery of the cell,
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using it for its own purpose.
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And in so doing,
it destroys the cell.
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~ Yes. - Yeah.
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- So it's a usurper. - Yes.
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And a very deadly one.
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In other words,
it makes use of it,
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and in the process destroys it.
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And now we have thousands
of cells infected with it.
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And each one of them will
go through that same process,
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and disintegrate and
die, releasing thousands more.
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And quite soon, you
will become symptomatic.
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And you will start...
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The virus comes in the air.
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Someone else with the infection
coughs and breathes in your face
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or near you, or you touch
something where somebody else
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coughed and you rub
your nose, or someway,
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and you now have
that virus in you.
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It goes first to the epithelium
there in the nasal passages
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and starts
infecting those cells.
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And very soon you
start getting a runny nose.
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As it goes
further down the throat
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you may get a
little bit of a cough.
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Now God designed our bodies
with a way to fight infections.
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We call it the immune system.
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A very complex, very
robust system which really
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has a way of
fighting a lot of enemies.
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God built it in
there to protect us.
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And as it starts to
react to this, it becomes aware
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of the presence of this
enemy, it knows it's an enemy,
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it starts making
antibodies against it.
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The antibodies
will tag the viruses.
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Cells called macrophages,
the big eaters, come around
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and they start to gobble up
these viruses and destroy them.
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They actually gobble
them up, take them inside
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and digest them, and
rip them apart into pieces,
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and get rid of them for you.
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And of course,
ideally they would be able
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to do this quite quickly.
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As in the case of the common
cold, you get a runny nose,
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maybe a sore throat,
a little bit of cough,
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you feel awful.
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By the way, when you feel awful,
all of those aches and pains
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that make you feel
miserable while you've got it,
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the fatigue, they're
all caused by messages.
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They're chemical molecules
made by the immune system
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as part of the battle
that's going on to fight it.
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That's how you know
the battle is going on,
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when you feel all that.
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Of course, you can take it
as a sign it's time to rest.
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"I need more sleep
right now. I need my rest.
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And I need to kind of stay
away from other people as well
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and not infect them."
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A fever is often a part of it.
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A fever not only is a sign
that you've got an infection
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going on, a fever is actually
part of fighting that infection.
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As the temperature
goes up, these macrophages,
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these big eaters,
become hyperactive.
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It's sort of like
sharks in a feeding frenzy.
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Instead of just gobbling up
a few, they become like this...
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I mean, if you're a
virus, you do not want to
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see a febrile macrophage.
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I mean, it's all over.
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These things are
tremendously powerful.
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And when the fever goes up,
instead of their usual ability
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to stuff, they
really become super active.
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And so, you know, God's got
a good system designed there.
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Amen, amen.
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This kind of reminds me of,
Dr. Teske, a verse that we find
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in Psalm 139.
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It actually says, "For
You formed my inward parts;
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You covered me in
my mother's womb."
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And then it says,
"I will praise You
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for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made."
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~ Amen, amen. ~ Yes.
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Yeah, God designed
this into us there.
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Just as an aside, one of
the things that sort of inhibits
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the work of those
cells, those eater cells,
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is a lot of sugar.
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I remember you
mentioned that one time, that
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one of the things you
want to do when you get sick
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is cut your sugar intake.
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~ Yeah. - Cut the soda.
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Cut anything with the sweets,
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because you're
inhibiting your own recovery.
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~ Yeah, those macrophages,
you know, they measure
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how fast they can eat.
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And they have what they
call the phagocytic index.
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And they count
how many, you know,
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bacteria or viruses they eat.
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And a normal one is
like, say, fifteen or sixteen
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phagocytic index means
they are working really good.
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That's normal.
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A can of soda or a
piece of cake, that much sugar
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is enough to
strip this coating...
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There's a coating on here
with which they sense them.
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And once you strip that
coating off that senses them,
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you can't identify them.
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And they just kind of
float around and do nothing,
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and then they just, you
know, "How you doing, virus?"
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and go on their way.
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They just...
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Their phagocytic
index goes down to zero.
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They just stop eating.
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So yeah, in terms of, we're
getting ahead of our story,
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but that's okay.
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You know, sugar is a
real enemy right now.
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And you want to
stay away from that.
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It's going to really impair
your ability to fight this.
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What about greasy foods?
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Greasy foods can damage it
to, but not to the same degree.
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They do a lot of
other bad things,
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but sugar is your
real enemy in terms of
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fighting this
infection right now.
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How about, you know,
fruit that like has sugar?
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Or orange juice?
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Can you get too much of that?
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Not really, because it comes
so loaded with antioxidants
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and phytochemicals and
all of these other things.
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You know, we talk about
one thing in the immune system;
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the immune system
is extremely complex.
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And there is in fruits and
berries and all of these things
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hundreds and hundreds of...
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I think I read once
that blueberries have
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600 bioactive molecules.
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These are molecules
that go inside cells,
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they're taken up
and used by cells.
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And most of them we
don't even know what they do.
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But they're
obviously doing something.
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And more and more we're
finding out that many of these,
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as we start to
discover what they're doing,
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they have roles in
the body's immune system.
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They turn on or
turn off certain things
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that help them to do a
better job of fighting something
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or stop doing something
they're not supposed to do.
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It's very complex.
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And we need that
large selection and variety
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of these
particular types of molecules.
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You know, it used to be
we knew there was vitamin C,
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and vitamin B6, and
thiamin, and riboflavin.
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You know, a few vitamins.
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And then they said well
there's 26 essential vitamins.
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And now we realize that, no,
there are hundreds and hundreds
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and hundreds of
essential vitamins.
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And you're not going to
get them in processed food.
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The only way to come up with
that variety of all of those
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ones is to actually take the
food the way God made it there
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by eating oranges, and
tangerines, and apples,
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and blueberries, and
figs, and whole grains,
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and vegetables, and
all of that type of stuff.
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That's the way to get what
your body's immune system needs.
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The best thing you can do is
to take it the way God gave it.
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I want to take us into
something that Pastor Bohr
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talked to us this
morning in the staff.
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I just took my wife out
to pick up a quick lunch,
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and I noticed in the
store on the floor they have
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marks that were six feet apart.
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And when you went in
there, they made you stop
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at six feet
from the next person,
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and you couldn't move
until the other person moved.
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One, let's talk
about transmission;
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and is this six foot
radius, is that enough?
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Is that sufficient?
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Most of our...
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Again, when we talk
about this coronavirus,
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most stuff we're talking about
is to a certain degree a guess.
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An educated guess made
by some really smart people
00:17:47.26\00:17:50.23
that know a lot about
epidemiology and viruses.
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But this is a new virus.
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We really
haven't had this before.
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Nobody is immune to it.
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And so a lot of the stuff,
we're making our best guess.
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Our best guess on
this is that it's primarily
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what we call droplet.
00:18:07.15\00:18:08.58
Coughing, sneezing puts
out these microscopic particles
00:18:08.62\00:18:13.36
of moisture
with viruses on them.
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And they go so
far and will settle,
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and they'll fall out of the air.
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You know, if you're more
than six feet, the thinking is,
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yeah, they've
probably fallen to the ground.
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They're
probably not, you know...
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If you're real
close to somebody,
00:18:27.17\00:18:28.87
sitting right beside
them, yeah, you're breathing
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in what they're breathing out
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and you're probably
really exposed to it.
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I saw one study that
was done on a bus in China.
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They took a four
hour trip across country.
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And one person was
infected in the back of the bus.
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And there were people 15
feet away that were infected
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after that ride.
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You know, the longer
you're in a closed place,
00:18:49.32\00:18:51.69
the more likely that
type of thing, you know.
00:18:51.73\00:18:53.63
Being on an airplane,
being on a cruise ship.
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We've had some real bad
outbreaks in various prisons
00:18:57.43\00:19:00.04
throughout China
where one person gets it
00:19:00.07\00:19:02.80
and pretty soon
everybody's got it.
00:19:02.84\00:19:04.71
So the more closely
people are crowded together,
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the more quickly and effectively
this virus can spread
00:19:09.61\00:19:12.85
from person to person.
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~ So this virus seems
to be more contagious,
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much more
contagious than others?
00:19:16.72\00:19:19.29
Very much so. Compared to...
00:19:19.62\00:19:21.99
I mean, there's others
that are quite contagious.
00:19:22.32\00:19:24.63
I mean, if you want to
compare it to some of the other
00:19:25.99\00:19:28.46
epidemics, you know,
what's the difference here?
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Probably you remember back
in 2009 they had what was called
00:19:32.37\00:19:35.94
the swine flu.
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It was kind of a pandemic
spread around the world.
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It was very infectious.
00:19:40.18\00:19:41.91
But it wasn't very deadly.
00:19:42.28\00:19:44.98
In other words, most
people that got the swine flu
00:19:45.18\00:19:48.35
got miserable, and
got sick, and got well.
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More recently, you may
remember the SARS epidemic.
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The SARS virus was
actually a coronavirus
00:19:56.76\00:19:59.89
like this one is.
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And matter of
fact, almost identical to
00:20:02.20\00:20:05.70
the current COVID-19
virus, this SARS virus.
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And it has become quite deadly.
00:20:10.01\00:20:13.07
And they have done various...
00:20:13.27\00:20:14.88
But it wasn't that infectious.
00:20:14.91\00:20:17.65
In other words, it spread, it
was really deadly if you got it.
00:20:17.68\00:20:20.92
But we were able to
isolate people, you know.
00:20:20.95\00:20:23.45
In other words, we finally
got it, we isolated everybody,
00:20:23.49\00:20:26.45
and we don't let
anybody else get around it,
00:20:26.65\00:20:28.42
and we can contain it.
00:20:28.46\00:20:29.96
And we were able
to contain the SARS.
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And after a year it was gone.
00:20:32.53\00:20:34.83
You know, in the
second year it was gone.
00:20:35.30\00:20:36.90
And SARS hasn't
been around since then.
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You haven't seen anybody die
of SARS because we contained it.
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Well now, in this current one
they actually took a SARS virus
00:20:44.91\00:20:52.48
and they've actually
changed those spike proteins
00:20:52.51\00:20:55.48
where it infects, and now they
have become super infective.
00:20:55.52\00:20:59.29
And now we have sort of the
infectivity of the swine flu
00:20:59.55\00:21:05.69
combined with the much more
deadliness of the SARS epidemic.
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Maybe we should take
a minute and talk about
00:21:11.47\00:21:14.04
how it goes beyond
runny nose and cough
00:21:14.74\00:21:18.37
and body aches and fevers.
00:21:18.41\00:21:20.34
If it can spread, if
our immune system is weak...
00:21:21.94\00:21:25.31
Maybe our immune system is
weak just because we're older
00:21:25.71\00:21:28.58
and everything doesn't
work as well as it used to.
00:21:28.62\00:21:31.15
Or maybe we already have
congestive heart failure,
00:21:31.19\00:21:33.99
or lung disease, or diabetes,
or some other immunocompromised
00:21:34.02\00:21:38.46
or weakening thing that
makes us more susceptible
00:21:38.49\00:21:41.13
and our immune system
can't just wipe it out
00:21:41.36\00:21:43.70
like a cold and make it go away.
00:21:43.73\00:21:46.10
It spreads down into the
lower respiratory system,
00:21:46.50\00:21:50.31
down into the lungs.
00:21:50.34\00:21:51.77
And when this virus starts
infecting the epithelial lining,
00:21:52.14\00:21:56.78
all the little microscopic
air sacs in your lungs,
00:21:56.81\00:22:00.18
and starts destroying them,
as they destroy, fluid comes out
00:22:01.02\00:22:04.65
and starts filling those spaces.
00:22:04.69\00:22:06.62
That's what we call pneumonia.
00:22:06.72\00:22:08.42
We can take an X-ray or a
CT scan and you see these areas
00:22:08.46\00:22:12.03
start to fill up with fluid.
00:22:12.06\00:22:13.46
They'll turn up as white spots
on the scans and they'll see it.
00:22:13.50\00:22:17.57
It starts out in the
peripheries of the lungs,
00:22:17.60\00:22:19.27
and pretty soon
there's a spot here and there.
00:22:19.30\00:22:21.50
And pretty soon these
spots are joining together.
00:22:21.54\00:22:23.77
And as they take up
enough of the lung space,
00:22:24.11\00:22:26.57
pretty soon you
can't move enough air.
00:22:26.61\00:22:29.58
You can't breathe enough air to
actually, get your oxygen level.
00:22:29.61\00:22:33.88
So I might interject here, if
you're at home taking care of,
00:22:33.92\00:22:38.49
you know, an infection
like this, if you start feeling
00:22:38.52\00:22:42.19
short of breath, if your
breathing rate is faster,
00:22:42.22\00:22:46.46
we say up to 20 is
normal, if you're breathing
00:22:46.49\00:22:50.20
faster than that, that's a
sign that you're starting to
00:22:50.23\00:22:53.44
get in trouble here.
00:22:53.47\00:22:54.80
If you've got one of
those fingertip pulse oximeters
00:22:54.84\00:22:57.51
there where you
see your oxygen level,
00:22:57.54\00:23:00.14
then it's like, yeah,
if that's dropping down
00:23:00.84\00:23:03.81
in the 80's we
know we're in trouble.
00:23:03.85\00:23:05.28
You need to go to a hospital.
00:23:05.31\00:23:06.95
You're going to
need some more support.
00:23:06.98\00:23:09.05
This virus, once it starts
going, this viral pneumonia
00:23:09.88\00:23:13.22
becomes very rapid
in its progression.
00:23:13.25\00:23:16.02
And we often see
people just in, you know,
00:23:16.06\00:23:18.49
24 hours, 40 hours, go from
there to where they are really
00:23:18.53\00:23:23.00
in a critical,
life-threatening situation.
00:23:23.03\00:23:25.33
You know, in the hospital we
can put you on high flow oxygen,
00:23:25.37\00:23:28.24
we can put you on some
respiratory assistance,
00:23:28.44\00:23:31.07
or we can intubate you
and put you on a ventilator
00:23:31.11\00:23:33.61
and breathe for you.
00:23:33.98\00:23:35.58
To do everything we can to
try to make use of what lungs
00:23:35.61\00:23:38.55
you've got left
to keep you alive.
00:23:38.58\00:23:40.52
There is something
we have called ECMO
00:23:41.78\00:23:43.99
where we can actually
hook you up to a machine
00:23:44.02\00:23:45.82
that takes the place of a lung.
00:23:45.85\00:23:47.39
The problem is, there's
very few ECMO machines around.
00:23:47.59\00:23:50.46
Most hospitals do not have that.
00:23:50.49\00:23:52.29
Just a few big hospitals,
and they probably only have one,
00:23:52.33\00:23:55.73
or maybe at the most
two or three, you know.
00:23:55.76\00:23:57.83
So that's going to be very
minimally available right now.
00:23:58.00\00:24:02.30
~ So if a person, say a
person becomes very gravely ill
00:24:02.34\00:24:06.81
in their respiratory system,
and they get well eventually,
00:24:07.18\00:24:11.11
do the lungs
regenerate to a certain point?
00:24:11.51\00:24:13.95
Yes. If they didn't,
you wouldn't survive.
00:24:14.48\00:24:18.32
The lungs have to heal,
they have to get over that.
00:24:18.35\00:24:21.56
Do they regenerate fully?
00:24:21.59\00:24:23.53
From what we know,
from what we've heard,
00:24:24.89\00:24:26.80
many of the survivors in
Wuhan are showing what we call
00:24:26.83\00:24:30.20
pulmonary fibrosis
where the damage was replaced
00:24:30.23\00:24:34.37
with scar tissue
rather than some lung tissue.
00:24:34.40\00:24:37.21
And so, they may have
limited pulmonary capacity
00:24:37.61\00:24:40.41
for the rest of their life if
they had a really bad infection.
00:24:40.44\00:24:43.04
If you had a milder pneumonia
or just the other stuff,
00:24:43.21\00:24:45.98
no, I don't think
you'll notice any residual.
00:24:46.01\00:24:48.32
But a really bad pneumonia,
it looks like many of them
00:24:48.35\00:24:51.62
are getting some
pulmonary fibrosis,
00:24:51.65\00:24:53.82
some residual damage there.
00:24:53.86\00:24:57.19
But the damage
doesn't stop there.
00:24:57.99\00:25:01.80
The virus can spread to
other parts of the body.
00:25:01.83\00:25:04.83
And the heart is particularly
susceptible as well.
00:25:04.87\00:25:09.10
And so, when your
heart becomes infected by it,
00:25:09.64\00:25:12.67
the myocardium, the cells,
the muscle cells in your heart
00:25:12.71\00:25:16.24
that allow it to beat
become damaged and weakened
00:25:16.28\00:25:19.45
and start breaking down.
00:25:19.48\00:25:21.02
The ability of the
heart to contract, the ability
00:25:21.05\00:25:24.09
to put out, cardiac
output goes way down.
00:25:24.12\00:25:27.72
What we call the ejection
fraction, how we measure
00:25:27.96\00:25:31.86
how much the heart
pumps out with each beat,
00:25:31.89\00:25:34.33
can drop down to
around 10 percent.
00:25:34.36\00:25:36.97
At that point, you're
not pumping enough blood
00:25:37.27\00:25:39.97
to really keep your body going.
00:25:40.00\00:25:41.87
You go into what we
call cardiogenic shock.
00:25:41.90\00:25:44.57
The body is, you know,
pale, clammy, dark colored,
00:25:44.81\00:25:49.78
cold; and very shortly you
go into cardiac arrest and die.
00:25:49.81\00:25:56.72
And what these specialists
are telling us now is that
00:25:56.75\00:26:01.86
probably about half the people
that die, die of the pneumonia,
00:26:02.39\00:26:06.59
and about half of them
die of the cardiac arrest.
00:26:06.63\00:26:09.86
~ So this is a
very serious thing.
00:26:09.90\00:26:11.37
This is very serious.
00:26:11.40\00:26:13.13
To put some numbers on
it, about 80% of the people
00:26:13.17\00:26:17.34
that get infected
will probably end up with
00:26:17.37\00:26:21.01
milder type things
where we have a cough,
00:26:21.04\00:26:25.11
and fevers, and feel
awful, but you get better,
00:26:25.15\00:26:28.82
with nothing worse than that.
00:26:28.85\00:26:30.19
You won't need
to be hospitalized.
00:26:30.22\00:26:31.55
You'll be able to stay home,
eat your oranges, and get well.
00:26:31.65\00:26:34.99
But what we'll find is
that another 15% are going to
00:26:35.49\00:26:42.56
require hospitalization.
00:26:42.60\00:26:44.13
You're going to need
some supplemental oxygen,
00:26:44.17\00:26:46.33
it's turned into pneumonia,
00:26:46.37\00:26:48.24
but with good support
you'll probably get better.
00:26:48.80\00:26:52.77
And there's probably
another 5% that are going to
00:26:53.11\00:26:57.01
need to be
intubated, put on a ventilator,
00:26:57.05\00:26:59.61
and are at very high risk
of dying from the pneumonia
00:26:59.65\00:27:03.99
or the cardiac arrest.
00:27:04.02\00:27:05.55
So it is a very
serious infection,
00:27:06.45\00:27:09.09
and it's a very
contagious infection.
00:27:09.59\00:27:12.03
So if you get well, are you
immune then to the coronavirus?
00:27:12.06\00:27:15.90
~ That's the best thinking.
Again, this is a new virus.
00:27:15.93\00:27:18.90
They're just starting to
come out with some testing
00:27:19.27\00:27:21.80
for the antibodies.
00:27:21.84\00:27:23.77
Here in the United
States nobody is really testing
00:27:23.94\00:27:26.78
for the antibodies to
see how immune you are yet.
00:27:26.81\00:27:30.15
Right now we're all using
a test that's called a PCR.
00:27:30.61\00:27:34.18
Polymerase chain reaction.
00:27:34.52\00:27:36.15
But what it is, is they're
using these genetic probes
00:27:36.18\00:27:39.55
and they'll take a swab,
it's like a little stick with a
00:27:39.75\00:27:42.62
cotton ball on
the end like a Q-Tip,
00:27:42.66\00:27:44.46
but it's a special plastic one,
and they're going to push it
00:27:44.49\00:27:47.00
way back in the
nose, way way back in there
00:27:47.03\00:27:49.80
where the virus
infection is very likely to be.
00:27:49.83\00:27:52.70
Twirl it around back
there and pull it out.
00:27:52.90\00:27:55.24
This is then taken to the
lab and they will test it,
00:27:55.27\00:27:59.61
because there will
be viruses on there.
00:27:59.64\00:28:01.94
And the PCR test is actually
testing, are there viruses
00:28:02.18\00:28:06.61
on this swab that
you took out of there?
00:28:06.65\00:28:09.08
And so, if you've got
a positive test, it means
00:28:09.35\00:28:12.29
you had viruses in your nose.
00:28:12.39\00:28:14.69
And so, that's what a
positive COVID-19 test is.
00:28:15.16\00:28:19.03
So, doctor, that's
the actual procedure?
00:28:19.06\00:28:20.96
To put this thing
far back in your nose?
00:28:21.00\00:28:22.96
And to be honest, it's not
real comfortable to stick a swab
00:28:23.00\00:28:26.17
that far back in your nose.
00:28:26.20\00:28:27.67
But it's the best we've got.
00:28:29.67\00:28:31.17
There are some that
are coming out with some
00:28:31.21\00:28:32.97
quicker and simpler tests.
00:28:33.01\00:28:34.34
You just stick something
in your mouth and take it out.
00:28:34.38\00:28:36.34
But we're still waiting
on those to be deployed.
00:28:36.38\00:28:40.12
Right now, the only option
is a PCR test with a nasal swab,
00:28:40.15\00:28:44.05
which we go way back
to get that specimen.
00:28:44.09\00:28:47.99
- That way back is
kind of frightening.
00:28:48.46\00:28:49.89
Just the thought of
going back that far.
00:28:50.39\00:28:52.89
From the time that they
take that specimen, that swab,
00:28:53.56\00:28:57.67
to the time they get an answer
for you, we're talking how long?
00:28:57.87\00:29:01.74
It actually only
takes, you know, once they
00:29:03.81\00:29:07.18
package it,
take it to the lab...
00:29:07.21\00:29:08.88
A lot of time the time is
taken up in the transportation.
00:29:08.94\00:29:11.85
By the way, it has to
be packaged according to
00:29:12.18\00:29:14.58
special guidelines, and sealed
in bags and certain boxes,
00:29:14.62\00:29:17.99
sealed, labeled, and everything
to be legal to transport it.
00:29:18.02\00:29:21.19
But the labs all
know how to do that.
00:29:21.52\00:29:23.16
They've been
doing that for years
00:29:23.19\00:29:24.53
with all kinds of
biological specimen,
00:29:24.56\00:29:26.33
so that's nothing new there.
00:29:26.36\00:29:27.76
But once it gets to the
lab and they take it out and
00:29:28.06\00:29:30.67
it's your turn to get
on the machine right there,
00:29:30.70\00:29:32.90
they do a bunch
of them at a time,
00:29:32.93\00:29:34.47
it'll take probably
about a couple of hours
00:29:34.97\00:29:37.87
to actually run the test.
00:29:37.91\00:29:39.67
And then once they get
the results, those can be
00:29:41.51\00:29:43.95
transmitted electronically
back to the lab that sent them
00:29:43.98\00:29:47.48
to them, or to the doctor.
00:29:47.52\00:29:49.58
And someone can then actually
pick up a phone and call you
00:29:49.78\00:29:52.59
and say, "Hey, we
have your test results."
00:29:52.62\00:29:54.16
- Yeah, so it's
really not that long.
00:29:54.19\00:29:55.76
Well, I'm telling you the ideal.
00:29:55.79\00:29:57.86
The actual turnaround
time we've been experiencing
00:29:57.89\00:30:01.56
with most labs right
now, they're all saying
00:30:01.60\00:30:05.47
two to three days.
00:30:05.50\00:30:06.94
Many of them are
running over a week
00:30:07.34\00:30:10.01
just because of the backlog.
00:30:10.04\00:30:11.71
We're really behind in
the availability of testing,
00:30:11.74\00:30:15.74
how many tests are out there.
00:30:15.78\00:30:17.55
It's just...
00:30:18.71\00:30:20.05
They are catching up.
00:30:20.08\00:30:21.42
We are doing
way, way more tests.
00:30:21.45\00:30:22.92
We have a lot more
labs now with supplies.
00:30:22.95\00:30:25.59
The last I heard is by
the middle of this coming week
00:30:26.29\00:30:29.56
they hope to be
caught up with the backlog,
00:30:29.59\00:30:31.66
and then we can see a
little bit more rapid turnaround
00:30:31.69\00:30:34.76
time here, and probably
just a day or two to get your
00:30:34.80\00:30:38.30
test results back once
things get back up to speed.
00:30:38.33\00:30:41.24
So are all tests created equal?
00:30:41.27\00:30:43.37
I've heard that there's
some tests that people take
00:30:43.41\00:30:46.94
that are false positive.
00:30:46.98\00:30:48.78
Most of the time if
you get a positive test,
00:30:49.48\00:30:52.95
it's not a false positive.
00:30:53.35\00:30:54.85
You've got the infection.
00:30:54.88\00:30:56.48
On the other
side, it's very possible
00:30:56.52\00:30:59.85
to get a false negative.
00:30:59.89\00:31:01.66
Because if somebody didn't
stick that swab back far enough
00:31:01.86\00:31:05.49
because you were screaming
and they didn't want to hurt you
00:31:05.53\00:31:07.90
and whatever, maybe
we didn't pick it up.
00:31:07.93\00:31:11.20
If you've just got a
few symptoms, maybe there's
00:31:11.77\00:31:14.27
not enough virus to pick up yet.
00:31:14.30\00:31:16.20
So you could have an early
infection and the test would
00:31:16.24\00:31:19.37
come back negative,
but you do have the virus.
00:31:19.41\00:31:22.48
So the possibility of
false negative is there.
00:31:22.51\00:31:26.72
And there is a whole other
area of asymptomatic people.
00:31:27.38\00:31:34.26
What we call
asymptomatic spreaders.
00:31:34.29\00:31:36.52
In other words, what
that's referring to is somebody,
00:31:37.06\00:31:40.06
they're infected,
they've got the virus,
00:31:40.10\00:31:42.20
their body is taking care of it,
but they're not really getting
00:31:42.63\00:31:45.93
fevers, or the
achy pains, or a cough.
00:31:45.97\00:31:49.14
They don't really seem sick.
00:31:49.17\00:31:51.04
And it's, you know...
00:31:51.31\00:31:55.04
But they do have the
virus, and it is there,
00:31:55.24\00:31:57.88
and they can spread it
to you and you can get it.
00:31:57.91\00:32:00.58
So it's very difficult for
us to really know who's got it
00:32:00.62\00:32:04.52
and who doesn't, you know.
00:32:04.55\00:32:06.02
It's one of the
things, it's one of the reasons
00:32:06.65\00:32:09.02
we're doing the
social distancing.
00:32:09.06\00:32:11.09
One of the reasons
people often wear masks.
00:32:11.39\00:32:13.96
We don't really know
who's got it and who doesn't.
00:32:14.60\00:32:17.90
You probably won't
know that you've got it
00:32:18.70\00:32:21.24
until you've already been
spreading it for a day or two.
00:32:21.27\00:32:24.01
- So why do some
people get symptoms
00:32:24.27\00:32:28.08
and other people don't?
00:32:28.58\00:32:29.98
We don't know the
answer to that entirely,
00:32:30.45\00:32:32.45
but it mostly has to do
with your body's immune system.
00:32:32.48\00:32:35.85
A good robust immune
system, theoretically,
00:32:36.62\00:32:41.59
could throw it off.
00:32:41.62\00:32:42.96
You know, if you think of
adenoviruses, rhinoviruses,
00:32:43.12\00:32:46.13
some people get a
common cold and some people,
00:32:46.16\00:32:48.70
yeah, they felt a
little something one night,
00:32:48.90\00:32:51.00
but next morning now
it's not there, they're fine.
00:32:51.03\00:32:53.74
Other people get a really
bad cold that goes on for days
00:32:53.77\00:32:57.44
and they're miserable.
00:32:57.47\00:32:58.87
We're all different.
00:32:59.54\00:33:01.38
We all have different
degrees of susceptibility.
00:33:01.41\00:33:04.08
So how do pandemics end?
00:33:04.51\00:33:06.65
Is there light at
the end of the tunnel?
00:33:06.68\00:33:09.08
Yeah, so as we look at this
global pandemic that's spreading
00:33:10.02\00:33:14.76
around the world right now,
it's going to get a lot worse
00:33:14.79\00:33:18.83
before it gets better
here is everybody's thinking.
00:33:18.86\00:33:22.16
You know, if you see
what's happening in Italy
00:33:23.20\00:33:25.50
or what happened
in China, or Iran,
00:33:25.53\00:33:27.87
we're probably going
to see some degree of that
00:33:27.90\00:33:30.11
throughout much of
the world right here.
00:33:30.14\00:33:32.31
But there's really
four ways this can end.
00:33:32.34\00:33:35.11
And it will end.
00:33:35.14\00:33:36.48
You know, the
influenza epidemic back in 1918
00:33:37.45\00:33:42.88
was a terrible global pandemic.
00:33:42.92\00:33:45.65
At least a hundred million died,
five-hundred million infected.
00:33:45.95\00:33:50.49
But it ended within
a year or two years.
00:33:52.29\00:33:55.26
And now we've got a
little bit of a seasonal flu
00:33:55.70\00:33:59.60
that comes every year,
but it's not a global pandemic
00:33:59.63\00:34:02.50
that, you know,
paralyzes the world.
00:34:02.54\00:34:05.17
And that's one of the
ways that a pandemic can end,
00:34:05.71\00:34:08.44
is it can become seasonal.
00:34:08.48\00:34:10.18
We could end up with
a seasonal coronavirus
00:34:10.41\00:34:13.45
every winter that flares up.
00:34:13.55\00:34:15.62
It's too early to know, as we're
just now getting into spring
00:34:15.72\00:34:18.99
and summer, whether that's
going to give us a reprieve
00:34:19.02\00:34:22.52
and in the warm weather it's
going to go away and die off,
00:34:22.56\00:34:24.99
and then only to come
back this next winter or not.
00:34:25.03\00:34:27.63
We don't know that.
00:34:27.66\00:34:29.00
It could come back.
00:34:29.03\00:34:30.37
That's one of the
ways a pandemic can end.
00:34:30.40\00:34:32.23
It can sort of just
turn into this seasonal thing
00:34:32.27\00:34:34.90
that comes once in a while.
00:34:34.94\00:34:36.47
The other way, or
one of the four, is
00:34:37.31\00:34:40.48
it can end with what
we call herd immunity.
00:34:41.38\00:34:44.61
In other words, it
burns through the population.
00:34:44.91\00:34:48.78
Everybody gets the infection,
everybody gets immune.
00:34:48.82\00:34:52.15
Or at least a lot of the
people, most of the people
00:34:52.35\00:34:55.56
that have been infected either
died or have immunity to it.
00:34:55.59\00:34:59.79
And now, well, it can't
spread because the next person
00:34:59.83\00:35:03.10
it comes to is
already immune to it.
00:35:03.13\00:35:05.23
Is that what happened in 1918?
00:35:05.27\00:35:07.07
Pretty much, yeah.
00:35:07.67\00:35:09.00
There's a certain seasonality
that still flares up,
00:35:09.04\00:35:12.07
but the bottom line is,
most everybody in our population
00:35:12.17\00:35:15.61
is now immune to it.
00:35:15.81\00:35:17.48
The only problem with the herd
immunity, when you look at it
00:35:17.51\00:35:21.38
just purely in that sense, is
the high cost in terms of life
00:35:21.42\00:35:26.05
when you've got a
really deadly virus like this.
00:35:26.09\00:35:28.72
The numbers, if we just let
this burn through the population
00:35:29.12\00:35:32.59
in the United States, is
there will be anywhere from
00:35:32.63\00:35:35.63
200,000 dead up to
over a million dead.
00:35:35.66\00:35:39.13
I've heard numbers as
high as three million dead.
00:35:39.33\00:35:41.87
You know, those are the kind
of numbers we're talking about
00:35:42.60\00:35:45.47
if we just let it burn through.
00:35:45.51\00:35:47.71
And that brings up the other
couple of ways this can end.
00:35:48.54\00:35:51.95
One, we can find a
drug that will cure it.
00:35:51.98\00:35:57.39
We're now experimenting
with several retroviral drugs.
00:35:57.79\00:36:01.06
Drugs that kill viruses.
00:36:01.09\00:36:03.69
They block viruses from
working in different ways.
00:36:03.73\00:36:06.49
And so they're
using some of those.
00:36:06.80\00:36:08.63
They've used some in China.
00:36:08.66\00:36:10.17
And there are
some that are promising
00:36:10.27\00:36:12.23
and have some efficacy.
00:36:12.27\00:36:13.94
There's some new ones.
There's also some old ones.
00:36:14.50\00:36:16.74
They're now going to
start using chloroquine.
00:36:16.77\00:36:20.51
Now that's an anti-malarial that
we've had around for decades
00:36:20.54\00:36:23.98
and we've used to fight malaria.
00:36:24.01\00:36:25.51
So it's a known entity.
00:36:25.78\00:36:27.42
We know what it does
and doesn't do in the body.
00:36:27.45\00:36:30.42
And it seems like it
may have some efficacy.
00:36:30.45\00:36:34.29
So they're going to start
using that to see if we can
00:36:34.32\00:36:37.13
stop the virus with chloroquine.
00:36:37.86\00:36:40.73
And so there will be
other drugs that will come up
00:36:40.83\00:36:43.40
that will be tested that
will work in different ways
00:36:43.43\00:36:45.53
trying to stop the virus, kill
the virus, block it in some way.
00:36:45.57\00:36:49.40
If we get some really effective
ones and use them broadly,
00:36:49.60\00:36:53.01
we can sort of put out the fire
here and keep it from spreading
00:36:53.34\00:36:57.11
and killing so many people.
00:36:57.15\00:36:58.65
At least the people
that get infected can recover
00:36:58.68\00:37:01.28
because we can give
them a medication there.
00:37:01.32\00:37:04.19
Closely related to that
is something called plasma.
00:37:04.39\00:37:08.52
They actually take blood
from somebody who has recovered
00:37:09.59\00:37:13.09
from the disease and we separate
out the clear part of the blood,
00:37:13.13\00:37:19.77
the protein in blood
from the blood cells.
00:37:19.80\00:37:21.54
And this plasma will
be full of antibodies
00:37:21.57\00:37:24.47
that they have made
to fight the coronavirus.
00:37:24.51\00:37:27.71
And now they can give you
an infusion of this plasma.
00:37:27.91\00:37:30.85
And the stories I've
heard out of China where they've
00:37:31.28\00:37:33.38
been doing this now quite a
bit show that they get excellent
00:37:33.42\00:37:36.89
improvement right away.
00:37:36.92\00:37:38.45
Of course, we need a
population of recovered people
00:37:38.72\00:37:41.12
to get plasma from.
00:37:41.16\00:37:42.62
And you know, you go
through a very purifying process
00:37:42.66\00:37:45.93
to make sure we remove viruses
and other infectious agents
00:37:45.96\00:37:48.96
and make sure it
doesn't have other things in it
00:37:49.00\00:37:51.23
so that it's safe to give you.
00:37:51.27\00:37:53.00
But there's certainly
promise in the use of plasma
00:37:53.57\00:37:56.81
in critical patients here.
00:37:56.84\00:37:58.51
One more, the fourth
way is with a vaccine.
00:37:59.74\00:38:04.98
You know, we're all familiar
with the influenza vaccine
00:38:05.71\00:38:10.29
that we try to get
everybody to take every year
00:38:10.32\00:38:13.25
to try to give more
herd immunity out here,
00:38:13.29\00:38:16.29
to try to get everybody
immune so that the epidemic
00:38:16.32\00:38:19.76
can't take off and
spread through the community
00:38:19.79\00:38:22.16
and spread through our nation.
00:38:22.20\00:38:23.60
So if we come up with a good
vaccine and vaccinate everybody,
00:38:25.47\00:38:29.47
well then it won't have anywhere
to go, and that can end it.
00:38:29.97\00:38:32.97
So the problem is it takes
a while to develop and make
00:38:33.01\00:38:36.54
and get a vaccine out there.
00:38:36.58\00:38:38.78
You know, the best case scenario
is a year to a year and a half.
00:38:39.11\00:38:42.78
So it's like this is
going to burn through a cycle
00:38:43.15\00:38:45.42
before we really
get a good vaccine.
00:38:45.45\00:38:47.72
Now they're trying to
do everything they can
00:38:47.76\00:38:49.69
to speed it up
and short circuit it.
00:38:49.72\00:38:51.86
There's five different companies
working on their own versions
00:38:51.89\00:38:56.50
of a vaccine, so we've got five
different sets going out there.
00:38:56.53\00:38:59.67
One of them has already
even started in clinical trials.
00:38:59.70\00:39:03.30
Of course, right now they're
sort of speeding everything up.
00:39:04.01\00:39:07.08
Now normally they take vaccines
and we test them on guinea pigs
00:39:07.11\00:39:10.88
and monkeys and make sure
they don't do anything bad.
00:39:10.91\00:39:14.05
They just skipped all the
animals trials and they just
00:39:14.95\00:39:17.19
went to people, so
we've got human guinea pigs
00:39:17.22\00:39:19.39
up in Washington state
right now that have volunteered.
00:39:19.42\00:39:23.49
You know, quite
heroically, I would say,
00:39:23.99\00:39:26.16
to become the
human guinea pigs to see
00:39:26.19\00:39:29.73
if this will work in humans,
00:39:29.76\00:39:31.40
if it will work and
do what it's supposed to,
00:39:31.43\00:39:33.50
and make sure it
doesn't have any bad effects.
00:39:33.74\00:39:36.94
Back when the SARS
epidemic was going around
00:39:37.44\00:39:40.71
they were
starting some vaccines.
00:39:41.48\00:39:43.48
And in some of the animal trials
and stuff they were doing,
00:39:43.51\00:39:47.05
these vaccines,
against the SARS virus,
00:39:47.08\00:39:49.65
which again is very
similar to this virus,
00:39:49.68\00:39:52.15
it had some very
devastating effects
00:39:53.02\00:39:55.52
and the animals were dying.
00:39:55.56\00:39:56.96
It like triggered up the immune
system, a certain percentage.
00:39:56.99\00:40:00.30
The immune system became
hyperactive and just destroyed
00:40:00.33\00:40:03.60
tissues in the lungs
and killed the animal.
00:40:03.63\00:40:05.30
So, you know, it's
not just guaranteed
00:40:05.33\00:40:08.54
because, you know,
"We have good vaccines,
00:40:08.57\00:40:10.51
we'll make it, and
everything will be fine."
00:40:10.54\00:40:12.47
There are things that
can go wrong with vaccines,
00:40:12.67\00:40:15.41
and there are
risks in developing these
00:40:15.44\00:40:17.48
and experimenting with them.
00:40:17.51\00:40:18.98
We'll just have to wait and see.
00:40:19.71\00:40:21.65
Hopefully we'll come up
with a safe vaccine that's
00:40:22.02\00:40:25.02
very effective and we can,
you know, put an end to this.
00:40:25.05\00:40:28.56
But right now that's
still down the road a ways.
00:40:28.59\00:40:31.89
I wouldn't count on
that getting out any time
00:40:31.93\00:40:34.20
real soon to help us there.
00:40:34.23\00:40:35.63
That was my question.
00:40:35.66\00:40:37.00
There's nothing that you've said
in the last several moments,
00:40:37.03\00:40:39.33
other than divine intervention,
that would lead us to believe
00:40:39.63\00:40:43.81
that this thing
is going to be over
00:40:43.84\00:40:45.27
in the next few weeks, months.
00:40:45.31\00:40:47.98
All of these methodologies
are going to take some time
00:40:48.58\00:40:51.11
to implement and to
have the desired effect.
00:40:51.15\00:40:53.55
- Yeah. - Yeah.
00:40:53.58\00:40:54.92
Yeah, we are going to have to...
00:40:54.95\00:40:57.12
We're at war, and it's going
to take a while to win this war.
00:40:57.15\00:41:01.52
We will win it.
00:41:01.56\00:41:02.89
It will come out ahead.
00:41:02.92\00:41:04.26
But there's going to
be quite a few casualties
00:41:04.63\00:41:08.46
between now and then.
00:41:08.50\00:41:09.86
And what we're trying to
do from all of these different
00:41:09.90\00:41:12.90
strategies is, what can
we do to stop the, you know,
00:41:12.93\00:41:17.54
the loss of life here.
00:41:17.57\00:41:19.34
And so, social distancing,
all the various forms
00:41:19.77\00:41:24.28
of shutting
down, shelter at home,
00:41:24.31\00:41:27.12
stay away, closing
schools, stop having gatherings
00:41:27.32\00:41:31.05
and meetings
and coming together.
00:41:31.09\00:41:32.65
Let's don't spread it around.
00:41:32.89\00:41:35.26
There's another important
reason to slow it down,
00:41:35.72\00:41:40.30
even if we can't stop it.
00:41:40.33\00:41:42.30
Because our hospital capacity
in this country is limited.
00:41:42.56\00:41:49.57
It has a certain
finite limit to it.
00:41:49.60\00:41:51.24
We have so many hospitals,
so many hospital beds,
00:41:51.27\00:41:54.08
so may ICU's, so
many ventilators.
00:41:54.11\00:41:56.68
With an epidemic like
this spreading like wildfire,
00:41:57.11\00:42:00.62
we can easily get
more people infected,
00:42:00.95\00:42:04.62
more people that
need hospitalization,
00:42:04.82\00:42:07.69
more people that need
to be on the ventilator,
00:42:07.72\00:42:09.99
than we have hospital
beds, or ICU's, or ventilators.
00:42:10.33\00:42:14.03
That happened in Wuhan.
00:42:14.43\00:42:16.03
That's happening
right now in Italy.
00:42:16.46\00:42:18.77
The need for those services
far exceeds the number of ICU's.
00:42:19.47\00:42:26.34
And it puts the
doctors in a very, you know,
00:42:26.37\00:42:30.48
painful situation of
deciding who gets a ventilator
00:42:30.58\00:42:34.98
and who doesn't.
00:42:35.02\00:42:36.35
Because if you need a
ventilator and you don't
00:42:36.38\00:42:37.75
get one, you're going to die.
00:42:37.79\00:42:39.32
And so, it's really
a very difficult thing.
00:42:39.95\00:42:43.59
The death rate, if you'll
notice in China, in Wuhan,
00:42:43.63\00:42:46.19
went up quite rapidly
when they reached that point.
00:42:46.23\00:42:48.36
In Italy right now, the
death toll this week has really
00:42:48.40\00:42:51.87
just been
climbing rapidly because
00:42:51.90\00:42:54.04
there are so many
people that can't actually get
00:42:54.07\00:42:57.31
the level of care they need.
00:42:57.34\00:42:59.37
We're not at that
point in the U.S. today,
00:42:59.67\00:43:02.18
but we will very
soon get to that point.
00:43:02.61\00:43:05.45
And so, you know, I think we've
got some really smart people
00:43:05.48\00:43:09.15
there in Washington,
D.C. that are working on it.
00:43:09.18\00:43:11.35
We are building
extra hospitals right now,
00:43:11.39\00:43:13.82
we're converting
spaces, they're moving some
00:43:13.86\00:43:16.06
hospital ships in there
trying to increase the capacity.
00:43:16.09\00:43:19.33
They're switching over, I heard
General Motors is going to start
00:43:19.73\00:43:23.06
now making ventilators
instead of automobiles.
00:43:23.10\00:43:26.43
You know, it's like
during World War II.
00:43:26.84\00:43:28.84
Instead of making automobiles,
we made tanks and airplanes.
00:43:28.87\00:43:32.47
And right now we
need ventilators.
00:43:32.67\00:43:34.74
And so, people...
00:43:35.14\00:43:36.48
There's companies that could
make them and haven't been,
00:43:36.58\00:43:40.02
but now we're going
to start making them.
00:43:40.05\00:43:41.38
People are going to make masks.
00:43:41.42\00:43:42.78
The protective equipment, you
know, is in very short supply.
00:43:42.82\00:43:45.79
All of these various
things to try to bring together
00:43:46.12\00:43:49.22
to increase our capacity,
but the one thing that we can do
00:43:49.26\00:43:52.79
is if we can slow
the rate of spread.
00:43:52.83\00:43:55.83
If we don't all get
sick next week with it,
00:43:55.86\00:43:58.47
if we spread out, space it out,
even if we get it eventually,
00:43:58.73\00:44:02.20
well maybe there still
might be a hospital bed
00:44:02.60\00:44:04.54
for you when you need it.
00:44:04.57\00:44:05.91
So don't just say, "Let's
all go out and get infected
00:44:05.94\00:44:09.78
so we can get this over with."
00:44:09.81\00:44:11.15
Because some of us are
not going to make it because
00:44:11.25\00:44:15.42
we will need a ventilator
to survive the pneumonia.
00:44:15.45\00:44:18.19
And so, it's very important,
all of these things, you know.
00:44:18.22\00:44:21.09
As the government comes
out and says things, sometimes
00:44:21.12\00:44:24.33
it sounds restrictive
when they're telling you that
00:44:24.36\00:44:26.29
you have to stay
home, and you can't do this,
00:44:26.33\00:44:28.83
and there are things that...
00:44:28.86\00:44:30.20
You know, "Why can't we
do it? It's not that bad."
00:44:30.27\00:44:32.33
Well, for some people, it is.
00:44:32.37\00:44:33.70
And you don't know if that
somebody will be you or not.
00:44:33.74\00:44:36.40
We all need to come together
on this to help the ones we can.
00:44:37.87\00:44:41.04
If we can slow this down,
slow down the number of cases,
00:44:41.08\00:44:44.51
you know, don't
spread it to anybody else,
00:44:44.85\00:44:47.05
we can get through
this with less loss of life
00:44:48.05\00:44:51.42
than we've had
in some, you know...
00:44:51.45\00:44:53.66
There's one area, good
doctor, I want us to touch on
00:44:54.39\00:44:56.99
before we end our time together.
00:44:57.76\00:44:59.96
And of course, it may
be one of the best ways,
00:45:00.06\00:45:02.20
and we're
talking about prevention.
00:45:02.23\00:45:04.00
The one question, when I
knew you were coming out,
00:45:04.33\00:45:06.50
I really wanted to ask
you is, this run on masks,
00:45:06.53\00:45:09.97
is this effectual?
00:45:10.01\00:45:12.01
Does it work?
00:45:12.04\00:45:13.38
You see people in airports
running around with masks on.
00:45:13.41\00:45:16.14
Does it help? Does it hurt?
00:45:16.24\00:45:17.65
Is it a placebo?
What about masks?
00:45:17.68\00:45:20.08
Okay, so does a mask work?
00:45:20.12\00:45:21.98
You know, it's interesting, the
Surgeon General got up and says,
00:45:22.32\00:45:25.15
"You don't need to wear masks.
00:45:25.95\00:45:27.52
It's not going to
make any difference.
00:45:27.56\00:45:28.89
It's not going to help you."
00:45:28.92\00:45:30.26
And almost two sentences later,
"We need to save all the masks
00:45:30.29\00:45:32.66
for our healthcare workers
because they really need them."
00:45:32.69\00:45:35.03
Yeah, if you use them
properly, they do work.
00:45:36.26\00:45:38.67
It's important that the mask
totally seals around the side.
00:45:38.70\00:45:41.84
If you just put it on and
it doesn't seal on the sides,
00:45:41.87\00:45:44.71
well the germs just
go right around the mask
00:45:44.94\00:45:46.84
instead of being filtered out.
00:45:47.31\00:45:48.78
You know, the N95 have a very
fine mesh and can filter out
00:45:49.14\00:45:53.18
the virus, you know,
these droplet particles,
00:45:53.21\00:45:56.35
quite effectively if
you're using them properly.
00:45:56.38\00:46:00.42
But all of that is
sort of a moot point.
00:46:00.89\00:46:03.36
There's no place you're
going to find a mask today.
00:46:04.06\00:46:06.19
You know, every store was
bought out almost a month ago.
00:46:07.03\00:46:10.27
There's no place for
you to get a mask right now.
00:46:10.47\00:46:13.57
So it's sort of a...
00:46:13.60\00:46:15.10
It's not going to
make a lot of difference
00:46:15.40\00:46:16.91
because you're not
going to be able to find one.
00:46:16.94\00:46:18.37
~ So those who have masks?
00:46:18.41\00:46:20.54
If you got them very early
on, or you've got some access
00:46:20.58\00:46:24.48
to them somehow.
00:46:24.51\00:46:25.85
But it's just something that
you probably shouldn't spend
00:46:26.15\00:46:34.16
a lot of time
worrying about because
00:46:34.19\00:46:35.56
you're not going to get one now.
00:46:35.59\00:46:37.09
You know they're not out there.
00:46:37.19\00:46:38.56
Now they're really trying
to ramp up production of masks,
00:46:38.83\00:46:41.56
but I can tell you, all of
those masks have been designated
00:46:41.60\00:46:44.53
on a national level to go to
healthcare and first responders.
00:46:44.57\00:46:48.87
We need our
paramedics protected,
00:46:48.90\00:46:50.74
we need our doctors and
nurses in the hospitals...
00:46:50.77\00:46:53.24
You know, it's not just
hospital beds and ventilators.
00:46:53.41\00:46:56.54
You need a respiratory
therapist to run the ventilator,
00:46:56.58\00:46:59.25
and you need a nurse
to manage your medicines
00:46:59.28\00:47:01.25
and your IV's to keep you alive,
and you need a doctor there
00:47:01.28\00:47:04.45
evaluating it to access what
to do and not do in your case.
00:47:04.49\00:47:07.96
And so, we need our
medical professionals right now.
00:47:08.16\00:47:11.19
We need them desperately.
00:47:11.23\00:47:12.63
And we're going to need them.
00:47:12.83\00:47:14.16
They're going to be
stretched really thin,
00:47:14.20\00:47:15.83
they're going to be overworked,
00:47:15.86\00:47:17.20
they're going
to need everything.
00:47:17.23\00:47:18.57
But we need to
protect them every way we can.
00:47:18.60\00:47:20.44
And so quite appropriately
they are diverting all of the
00:47:20.47\00:47:24.84
new production of
masks and protective suits
00:47:25.27\00:47:27.98
to the healthcare
and first responders.
00:47:28.01\00:47:30.81
And until they have
everything they need,
00:47:30.85\00:47:33.45
I wouldn't look to
find any at Home Depot.
00:47:33.68\00:47:37.02
The rest of us just get in line.
00:47:37.05\00:47:38.45
Alright, I want you to
help us help ourselves.
00:47:39.62\00:47:42.72
Washing hands: how
much, how often, how long?
00:47:42.92\00:47:45.79
~ As often as you can.
00:47:46.43\00:47:47.96
If somebody else coughed on
that spot and you touched it,
00:47:48.40\00:47:51.30
on that doorknob, on whatever,
and then you rub your nose
00:47:51.33\00:47:54.97
or something and
get it on your face
00:47:55.00\00:47:56.47
and it gets in
there, you've got it.
00:47:56.50\00:47:57.84
So the more
frequently, the better.
00:47:57.87\00:48:00.18
They say 20 seconds.
Soap and water is the best.
00:48:00.31\00:48:03.38
Just, you know, rub really good.
00:48:03.68\00:48:05.28
The easy way to do it, if you
wash the center of your hands,
00:48:05.31\00:48:07.28
and then you wash
the back of the hands,
00:48:07.32\00:48:09.02
and then you do
between your fingers,
00:48:09.05\00:48:10.52
once you've done
that and rinsed it good,
00:48:10.55\00:48:12.59
you've got your 20 seconds,
00:48:12.62\00:48:13.96
there's no
viruses on your hands.
00:48:13.99\00:48:15.32
That's probably the best.
00:48:15.36\00:48:16.83
Hand sanitizer, which
if you don't have a supply,
00:48:17.23\00:48:20.06
you're probably not
going to get either now.
00:48:20.10\00:48:21.76
You know, alcohol
solution is also very
00:48:22.63\00:48:25.63
effective if it's available.
00:48:25.67\00:48:27.80
Just plain ole dish soap
and water, a bar of soap.
00:48:28.54\00:48:31.44
Soap and water
will be very effective.
00:48:31.61\00:48:34.18
Is the soap and
water, is it killing it
00:48:34.81\00:48:37.18
or just washing it away?
00:48:37.21\00:48:38.55
It's getting rid of
it. It's washing it away.
00:48:38.58\00:48:40.58
- It's washing it away. - Yeah.
00:48:40.62\00:48:41.95
Dr. Teske, all the
years that I've known you,
00:48:42.58\00:48:46.22
your primary emphasis
has been on prevention.
00:48:46.96\00:48:50.29
- Lifestyle. - Yeah.
00:48:50.49\00:48:51.83
So what preventive
measures can be used
00:48:52.13\00:48:55.63
to strengthen our immune
system so that if we do get it,
00:48:56.06\00:49:00.10
we'll get over it quickly.
00:49:00.14\00:49:01.47
And hopefully
that we don't get it.
00:49:02.00\00:49:04.37
Yeah, one of your best
preventions right here is water.
00:49:04.41\00:49:07.81
~ Well, I guess I'll get...
00:49:07.84\00:49:09.18
You want to stay hydrated here.
00:49:09.21\00:49:10.55
- Follow your example. - Indeed.
00:49:10.58\00:49:12.35
A partially dehydrated cell
loses almost all of its ability
00:49:13.58\00:49:20.16
to resist infection.
00:49:20.19\00:49:21.82
The cell needs to
be adequately hydrated.
00:49:22.92\00:49:25.69
And while most of us realize
that we can get by on a lot less
00:49:26.13\00:49:31.63
water than is ideal during
the day, we can, you know,
00:49:31.67\00:49:34.94
take the edge off our
thirst and get through fine,
00:49:35.14\00:49:37.64
we need that
extra water, you know.
00:49:39.17\00:49:41.71
Six to eight
glasses a day, at least.
00:49:42.94\00:49:45.05
A lot more if
you're physically active.
00:49:45.08\00:49:47.15
We need that water.
00:49:47.62\00:49:48.95
We need fully hydrated
cells to fight infection.
00:49:48.98\00:49:51.95
And that's
probably the number one.
00:49:52.59\00:49:54.22
The next thing to remember
is fresh air and sunlight.
00:49:54.72\00:49:58.99
The best air purifier
is not these HEPA filters
00:49:59.23\00:50:03.37
and various little
devices, you know, that we use
00:50:03.40\00:50:06.13
in our buildings and house.
00:50:06.17\00:50:07.50
The best air
freshener, the best air purifier
00:50:07.54\00:50:10.81
is fresh air and sunlight.
00:50:11.04\00:50:13.27
You know, if the weather
permitting and the design of
00:50:13.31\00:50:16.04
your building permits, open
the doors, open the windows,
00:50:16.08\00:50:19.48
let air
circulate through the room,
00:50:19.51\00:50:22.12
let sunlight shine in.
00:50:22.52\00:50:24.45
Go out on the porch,
go out in the backyard,
00:50:25.12\00:50:27.92
go for a walk.
00:50:27.96\00:50:29.42
Our present
guidelines here in California,
00:50:29.69\00:50:32.46
they allow us to
go out for exercise.
00:50:32.49\00:50:35.50
- Viruses don't
like sunlight, do they?
00:50:35.53\00:50:37.80
No, ultraviolet light is
one of the ways to kill viruses.
00:50:37.83\00:50:42.17
Matter of fact, in hospitals
now we have these artificial
00:50:42.57\00:50:45.01
ultraviolet lights
that are used in many
00:50:45.04\00:50:47.51
of the purification
systems to kill the viruses.
00:50:47.54\00:50:51.05
So sunlight and fresh air
is going to keep things safe,
00:50:51.08\00:50:55.98
keep it purified.
00:50:56.02\00:50:57.35
~ So this is important.
00:50:57.39\00:50:58.72
Even though they're saying
stay inside, you don't want to
00:50:58.75\00:51:00.72
be with the shades drawn
and in a dark or semi-dark room.
00:51:00.76\00:51:04.23
You want some light in there.
00:51:04.26\00:51:05.59
You want ventilation, you
want that fresh outdoor...
00:51:05.63\00:51:08.56
The air inside a house
quickly becomes deionized.
00:51:09.26\00:51:13.97
You want this negatively
charged ionized fresh air
00:51:14.00\00:51:17.61
that smells fresh from outdoors.
00:51:17.64\00:51:19.54
You need that
fresh air in your lungs
00:51:19.57\00:51:22.94
because it effects
not only your brain,
00:51:22.98\00:51:24.81
but it effects the surface
of your lungs and how well
00:51:24.85\00:51:27.18
your lungs work
to have fresh air.
00:51:27.22\00:51:29.98
You need fresh air.
00:51:30.02\00:51:31.35
It's just the way we were
meant and designed to live.
00:51:31.62\00:51:34.19
So that's really key.
00:51:34.22\00:51:36.16
And then of course, really
probably the biggest thing
00:51:36.19\00:51:39.16
that's going to
affect your immune system
00:51:39.19\00:51:42.00
is your diet.
00:51:42.40\00:51:43.73
It's what you're going to eat.
00:51:43.77\00:51:45.33
And as we've been
mentioning earlier,
00:51:45.43\00:51:47.70
all of those nutrients that
God packaged when He made food.
00:51:48.00\00:51:52.71
You know, when God created
this world, He looked at it
00:51:52.74\00:51:55.54
and said it was very good.
00:51:55.58\00:51:57.38
And that's still
true. It's very good.
00:51:57.71\00:52:00.65
Packaged in
every single blueberry,
00:52:00.85\00:52:03.95
and every single orange,
every single piece of fruit
00:52:03.99\00:52:06.76
and food that God made
is everything you need.
00:52:06.79\00:52:09.86
And when we take it
and start processing it,
00:52:10.49\00:52:13.19
separating out, throwing
it away, taking out just
00:52:13.29\00:52:16.20
single ingredients, that food
becomes devoid of all of that
00:52:16.23\00:52:20.44
good stuff that we
really need, that particularly
00:52:20.47\00:52:23.10
our immune system really needs.
00:52:23.14\00:52:24.87
And if you're living on
processed food primarily
00:52:25.27\00:52:28.28
with a little fruit on the side,
you're running at a distinct
00:52:28.31\00:52:31.41
disadvantage right now.
00:52:31.45\00:52:33.01
It like everything you eat
should be a fruit, a vegetable,
00:52:33.35\00:52:38.25
a whole grain, a nut, a seed.
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We need to eat it
the way God made it.
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It's time in this
earth's history to come back
00:52:44.13\00:52:47.06
to the diet that God gave us.
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It's the one thing that's
going to get us through this.
00:52:49.73\00:52:54.97
~ So how important is exercise?
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Exercise is key because it
helps circulation of the body.
00:52:58.24\00:53:02.41
Everything moves.
00:53:02.44\00:53:03.78
You want every cell in
your body to be healthy,
00:53:03.81\00:53:05.91
but you've got to move blood
through all of those cells.
00:53:05.95\00:53:08.88
Circulation moves that to there.
00:53:09.12\00:53:11.65
Exercise
releases various factors.
00:53:11.85\00:53:14.72
It actually makes you
create certain molecules
00:53:14.76\00:53:17.26
that enhance the immune system,
enhances brain development,
00:53:17.49\00:53:21.46
enhances heart development.
00:53:21.63\00:53:23.50
All of these things.
00:53:23.53\00:53:24.93
It's extremely
complex compared to our
00:53:25.03\00:53:27.54
simplistic thinking at times.
00:53:27.57\00:53:29.40
But when you exercise,
when you stay hydrated,
00:53:29.60\00:53:32.57
when you eat all of the
nutrients that God made for you,
00:53:32.61\00:53:35.74
it's like
everything can work better.
00:53:35.78\00:53:38.21
And right now when we're
facing this life threatening,
00:53:38.48\00:53:41.65
you know, viral illness, we
need everything to be working
00:53:41.85\00:53:45.92
as best as possible.
00:53:45.95\00:53:47.29
We know that people that
don't have everything working
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well are the ones at
highest risk not to make it.
00:53:50.63\00:53:54.23
Now is the time to eat
the food, drink the water.
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Sleep is really important.
00:53:58.93\00:54:00.50
They have found
that sleep really affects
00:54:00.54\00:54:02.77
your body's immune system.
00:54:02.80\00:54:04.24
There is something about
that recharging, rebuilding,
00:54:04.47\00:54:07.98
restoring activities
that take place during a good
00:54:08.01\00:54:11.65
eight hours of
sleep that is essential
00:54:11.68\00:54:14.15
to your body's immune system.
00:54:14.18\00:54:16.02
If you're getting
less than eight hours,
00:54:16.42\00:54:18.32
you're probably
getting less than the optimum.
00:54:18.35\00:54:20.66
So take time, put it in
your schedule somehow someway
00:54:21.59\00:54:27.10
for quiet, dark,
peaceful, sound sleep.
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Give yourself a good
eight hours to sleep.
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It will be important to you
getting through this right now.
00:54:34.70\00:54:38.04
Yeah, so this virus is in some
ways forcing us to reprioritize
00:54:38.14\00:54:43.51
and re-access our own health
habits and long-term habits,
00:54:43.55\00:54:48.98
as far as our recovery
or even our ability to fight
00:54:49.28\00:54:52.89
this kind of
invasion of our bodies.
00:54:52.92\00:54:55.19
I mean, this is why God
has brought a health message
00:54:55.22\00:54:58.96
back to us at this
time in earth's history,
00:54:58.99\00:55:01.20
is He knew we would need it.
00:55:01.53\00:55:03.87
Our bodies are weakened,
deteriorated with limited
00:55:04.00\00:55:07.47
ability to fight
these infections.
00:55:07.50\00:55:09.87
And you know, we need
all the help we can get.
00:55:10.24\00:55:14.31
And we're going to get it here.
00:55:14.34\00:55:15.68
This is the way He
has designed that we would
00:55:15.71\00:55:18.38
get the benefits, get the help.
00:55:18.81\00:55:20.62
He's put everything there.
00:55:20.65\00:55:21.98
He's designed our
bodies to utilize those things.
00:55:22.02\00:55:24.35
You know, He will work
with us when we use His agencies
00:55:24.99\00:55:28.66
to fight this battle.
00:55:28.69\00:55:30.03
- We can count on that. - Amen.
00:55:30.06\00:55:31.39
Well, let me just read
a couple of versus here
00:55:31.43\00:55:33.86
from God's holy Word.
00:55:33.90\00:55:35.70
And then maybe Dr.
Teske can share some words of
00:55:36.06\00:55:40.34
comfort and hope to those
who are suffering at this time.
00:55:40.37\00:55:43.87
Not only because of the
disease, but because of the
00:55:43.91\00:55:47.28
economy, the terrible
problems in the economy.
00:55:47.31\00:55:50.25
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
00:55:50.85\00:55:53.92
"Or do you not know that
your body is the temple of the
00:55:54.28\00:55:58.15
Holy Spirit who is
in you, whom you have
00:55:58.19\00:56:01.62
from God, and that
you are not your own?
00:56:01.66\00:56:04.23
For you were bought at a price.
00:56:04.76\00:56:07.43
Therefore,
glorify God in your body
00:56:07.63\00:56:10.90
and in your
spirit, which are God's."
00:56:11.00\00:56:13.17
And Psalm 91 is
probably the key one this year.
00:56:14.00\00:56:20.41
"He who dwells in the secret
place of the Most High..."
00:56:22.44\00:56:26.15
He's going to be
protected under God's, you know,
00:56:26.28\00:56:29.12
supernatural
shadow of protection.
00:56:29.15\00:56:31.39
It's going to be hovering
over him, protecting him.
00:56:31.62\00:56:34.32
And it's going to protect
him from the noisome pestilence.
00:56:35.89\00:56:39.36
You know, we don't need to
fear the pestilence that stalks
00:56:39.79\00:56:43.06
in the darkness.
00:56:43.10\00:56:44.43
"A thousand will
fall at your side,
00:56:44.47\00:56:46.20
ten thousand at your right hand,
00:56:46.23\00:56:48.24
but it will not come near you."
00:56:48.44\00:56:51.34
"Neither will any plague
come near your dwelling because
00:56:51.64\00:56:54.88
He'll send His angels and
give them charge over you,
00:56:54.91\00:56:57.35
to protect you in all thy ways."
00:56:57.38\00:56:58.95
God has those
promises there for us,
00:57:00.98\00:57:03.49
and this is the time for them.
00:57:03.52\00:57:04.99
But like many promises,
it's a conditional promise.
00:57:05.02\00:57:09.62
The very first
verse of Psalm 91 says
00:57:10.13\00:57:14.26
who it's written to.
00:57:14.83\00:57:16.46
It's to "he who dwells in the
secret place of the Most High."
00:57:16.87\00:57:21.50
If you don't
understand what that is,
00:57:22.14\00:57:24.67
now is the time to get on
your knees and look at Scripture
00:57:25.11\00:57:29.14
and understand what it
means to dwell with Christ,
00:57:29.18\00:57:33.75
to have Christ in
you and you in Christ.
00:57:33.78\00:57:36.69
It's the essence of the gospel;
Christ in you and you in Christ.
00:57:36.89\00:57:41.62
In His final
interview with His disciples,
00:57:41.66\00:57:44.69
that was His message, you know.
00:57:44.73\00:57:48.00
"I will be with you
to the end of the world."
00:57:48.10\00:57:50.80
And he promised that.
00:57:50.83\00:57:54.17
His final prayer was that He
would be in us and us in Him.
00:57:55.00\00:58:01.14
That is the key.
00:58:01.78\00:58:03.11
Now is the time to
walk as Enoch walked;
00:58:03.14\00:58:06.82
in that communion with
God, in that daily prayer
00:58:07.02\00:58:10.02
where you understand
that God is with you.
00:58:10.05\00:58:12.79
Not maybe, nor
mostly, but you're sure of it.
00:58:13.49\00:58:16.06
You need that assurance.
00:58:16.59\00:58:17.93
Now is the time, you
know, to be sure of that.
00:58:17.96\00:58:21.16
Now is the time to
really come together.
00:58:21.86\00:58:25.10
God is drawing a protective
covering over His people,
00:58:25.13\00:58:27.97
and that protection
is His abiding presence.
00:58:28.00\00:58:31.31
We need to understand
that abiding presence.
00:58:31.77\00:58:35.11
- And the way that we
form that relationship
00:58:35.64\00:58:39.11
is by ingesting the Word of God.
00:58:39.51\00:58:42.48
That's how we come to know God.
00:58:42.78\00:58:44.62
You know, meditate on
the Word, study the Word,
00:58:44.95\00:58:47.32
and apply the
Word to the daily life.
00:58:47.36\00:58:49.39
"Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death,
00:58:49.82\00:58:53.13
I will fear no evil;
for Thou art with me."
00:58:53.23\00:58:56.73
Amen and amen.
00:58:56.77\00:58:58.27
That's how we should be
approaching this right now.
00:58:58.47\00:59:00.60
- Amen. - Fantastic.
00:59:00.64\00:59:01.97
Thank you, Dr. Teske.
00:59:02.00\00:59:03.34
Okay.
00:59:03.37\00:59:04.71
Well, we ask you
to trust in the Lord.
00:59:04.81\00:59:08.58
There's no substitute for faith.
00:59:08.61\00:59:11.18
And God will be faithful.
00:59:11.65\00:59:13.75
Bye, bye. We'll
see you again soon.
00:59:14.38\00:59:16.28
- Stay healthy,
stay well. - Take care.
00:59:16.32\00:59:18.99