1. Avoid contact with people returning from the epidemic area 2. Avoid traveling if you have fever, cough or trouble breathing. Immediately seek medical attention when symptoms become suspicious. Also share your travel schedule with medical staff. 3. Avoid contact with someone who has a cough. Wash soap hands often, avoiding touching your eyes, nose, and mouth. 4. When coughing or sneezing, cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or a sleeve. After, use a paper towel to put in the trash and wash your hands. 5. If you see signs of illness when traveling, immediately notify aviation, railway and car personnel and seek medical attention as soon as possible. 6. Only use cooked foods. 7. Do not spit indiscriminately in public. Avoid close contact with pets or wild animals. 8. Wear a mask when going to a crowded place or when coming in contact with someone who has symptoms. 9. Keep the environment clean, it's important that the air is outdoors and when the sun shines, you should go out

In many infectious diseases, the immune system’s reaction to a virus, bacteria, or other pathogen can cause greater harm to the infected individual than the pathogen itself. Sepsis is a deadly example of this phenomenon. Triggered by an infection, the immune system overreacts, releasing chemicals called cytokines that make blood vessels become leaky. That can ultimately reduce oxygen delivery to vital organs, which may cause organ failure. Sepsis kills more than 10 million people a year.

The Covid-19 epidemic is something like sepsis: the reaction by the media and government is likely to produce more harm to societies around the globe than the virus, possibly for many years to come.

I’m not trying to downplay the impact of this virus, officially known as SARS-Cov-2. Fever, cough, and shortness of breath are the primary symptoms. They can appear two to 14 days after exposure, though many people infected with the virus don’t experience any symptoms at all. Based on the data we have so far, the virus appears to be more deadly than the influenza (flu) virus.

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