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Remember, the official term is “economic impact payment.” So, be cautious of people who use the term “stimulus,” ask you to verify bank or check information online, or suggest they can speed up the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>* Bogus Phone calls: Officials with the FCC \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/covid-scams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a> scam text message campaigns and phone calls with people impersonating federal health workers and offering free home-testing kits, promoting cures and selling fake health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*Utility customer scams: PG&E says its security division has tracked between 5-10 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/scams/scams.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_scams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scam\u003c/a> attempts per day over the phone in recent weeks. 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The utility says scammers, using a copy of an actual PG&E automated call recording, are requesting immediate payment with a debit card on a past due bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> *\u003c/strong>Price gouging: The San Francisco district attorney’s office says it has received more than 50 calls or emails from people who report inflated prices for masks, disinfectant wipes and even products like chicken eggs and the vitamin C supplement EmergenC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>*\u003c/strong>Unproven Cleaning Products: The federal Environmental Protection Agency warns that companies are flooding the market with disinfectants and sanitizer falsely claiming to be effective against the novel coronavirus, The New York Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/climate/epa-fake-coronavirus-cleaners.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a>. The agency threatened legal action against businesses that sell the unregistered products. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Scammers looking to profit from those anxious for their stimulus check; inflated prices for desperately needed masks; fake coronavirus cures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cstrong>What You Should Be Watching Out For\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>* Stimulus scams: The IRS \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-issues-warning-about-coronavirus-related-scams-watch-out-for-schemes-tied-to-economic-impact-payments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">warns\u003c/a> taxpayers, especially retirees, to be on the lookout for calls, email phishing attempts and other schemes tied to stimulus checks, which can lead to tax-related fraud and identity theft. Remember, the official term is “economic impact payment.” So, be cautious of people who use the term “stimulus,” ask you to verify bank or check information online, or suggest they can speed up the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>* Bogus Phone calls: Officials with the FCC \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/covid-scams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a> scam text message campaigns and phone calls with people impersonating federal health workers and offering free home-testing kits, promoting cures and selling fake health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*Utility customer scams: PG&E says its security division has tracked between 5-10 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/scams/scams.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_scams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scam\u003c/a> attempts per day over the phone in recent weeks. A call may appear to customers as if it’s from PG&E, when it’s actually a disguised number from outside the company, a subterfuge called spoofing. The utility says scammers, using a copy of an actual PG&E automated call recording, are requesting immediate payment with a debit card on a past due bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> *\u003c/strong>Price gouging: The San Francisco district attorney’s office says it has received more than 50 calls or emails from people who report inflated prices for masks, disinfectant wipes and even products like chicken eggs and the vitamin C supplement EmergenC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>*\u003c/strong>Unproven Cleaning Products: The federal Environmental Protection Agency warns that companies are flooding the market with disinfectants and sanitizer falsely claiming to be effective against the novel coronavirus, The New York Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/climate/epa-fake-coronavirus-cleaners.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a>. The agency threatened legal action against businesses that sell the unregistered products. (See here for an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1959894/what-works-to-kill-coronavirus-as-you-clean-your-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EPA-approved list of coronavirus-killing disinfectants\u003c/a>.)",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Officials say these are just some of the cons and illegal attempts at cashing in on the current devastating health emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve really seen a wide variety of scams,” said U.S. Attorney Nicola Hanna.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>“As hard as we all work for our money, these folks work equally hard to steal our money. They’re very inventive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanna oversees the Justice Department’s district office in Los Angeles, which covers seven counties and 20 million people. The office recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/southland-man-arrested-federal-charges-alleging-fraudulent-investment-scheme-featuring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">charged\u003c/span>\u003c/a> a man arrested by an undercover FBI agent for allegedly soliciting investors with a fake coronavirus cure, and another man from the U.K. for \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/uk-national-charged-shipping-mislabeled-and-unapproved-treatments-patients-suffering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegedly importing\u003c/a> a fake COVID-19 treatment in mislabeled packages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s just the beginning. Hanna warns of solicited donations by fake charities and GoFundMe pages, as well as people selling coveted protective equipment like safety masks they don’t actually have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen phishing emails that purport to be from the Centers for Disease Control or the World Health Organization or other legitimate organizations,” Hanna said. “They’re not. And in fact, if you click on the link, it downloads malware onto your system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IRS is warning people looking for their $1,200 government stimulus check not to give out personal information over email or the phone. And there is \u003cspan class=\"s1\">no proven vaccine or antiviral treatment for COVID-19, so anyone claiming to have a coronavirus cure is lying.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all of these are small-time consumer scams. As governments and hospitals across the nation desperately hunted for protective equipment, SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West \u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu-uhw.org/press/union-locates-massive-supply-of-n95-masks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">announced\u003c/span>\u003c/a> on March 26 that it had found a supplier with 39 million protective masks for its members. But the deal fell apart after officials couldn’t verify and inspect the masks. Kaiser, which had placed an order for millions of them, said it learned the supplier never had them at all, the Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-03/coronavirus-seiu-masks-supplies-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Selling Bogus Coronavirus Treatments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith “The Real Iron Man” Middlebrook had described himself to his roughly 2.4 million Instagram followers as a “Genius Entrepreneur Icon,” and “Actor Writer Producer,” among other things, according to a federal affidavit prosecutors provided to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then around March 24, as the coronavirus pandemic ground life to a halt in California, the businessman, bodybuilder and actor who \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3033468/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">appeared\u003c/span>\u003c/a> briefly in “Iron Man 3,” “Moneyball” and other movies, crafted a new career: “Inventor: COVID19 Immunity & Coronavirus Cure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middlebrook’s social media feeds, usually featuring videos of him \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv3xhMtvPTw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">sculpting\u003c/span>\u003c/a> softball-sized biceps or promoting his self-help regime of “xccelerated success,” with praise for Donald Trump sprinkled in, gave way to a new pitch touting an injectable cure for COVID-19 and pills to prevent a person from acquiring it. According to the affidavit,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>Middlebrook allegedly solicited investment in a company called Quantum Prevention CV Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In text messages, prosecutors charge, Middlebrook claimed a patient from L.A who was sick with the virus “got up and walked out 51 hours after my injection,” boasting that investors could see returns of “$200M – $300M…conservative minimum,” on an investment of $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also claimed former basketball superstar Earvin “Magic” Johnson was an investor. (Johnson told investigators that wasn’t true.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say Middlebrook was arrested by an undercover FBI agent posing as an investor, making him the first person charged by the federal government for a coronavirus-related crime. A judge set his arraignment for April 16. If convicted as charged, he could face up to 20 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s5\">Requests for comment to several of Middlebrook’s email addresses listed on his websites went unreturned.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p6\">\u003cb>Importing a ‘Miracle Cure’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p6\">According to another federal affidavit, 59-year-old Frank Richard Ludlow of West Sussex, England, had been shipping a health concoction called a “Trinity Remedy” for three years to a distributor with addresses in Utah and California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, according to the charges, as health officials in California were recommending people stay home from work, Ludlow relabeled the product as “Trinity COVID-19 SARS Antipathogenic Treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p6\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">The contents of the purported coronavirus kits matched the earlier product — a \u003c/span>powdered “miracle cure” made of vitamin c, potassium thiocyanate, hydrogen peroxide and enzymes,\u003cspan class=\"s3\"> according to the affidavit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p6\">“A consumer was supposed to add 18 ounces of water, say a prayer, drink half of the solution, take a probiotic along with bee pollen, and then ingest the remainder of the solution,” prosecutors wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s3\">The kits are still being examined. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA, which must approve any drug defined as a “cure,” “mitigation,” or even “treatment” imported into the U.S., according to federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/laws-enforced-fda/federal-food-drug-and-cosmetic-act-fdc-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">law\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, has not approved the product for any use, let alone to treat COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 18, customs officers seized about 60 of the kits passing through a mail facility in Los Angeles in mislabeled boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s6\">Ludlow was \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2020/march/pipcu/man-charged-with-making-and-selling-fake-covid-19-treatment-kits/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">arrested\u003c/span>\u003c/a> in the U.K. for making and selling the kits and remains in custody there, authorities said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p6\">On April 1, Hanna charged Ludlow with one count of importing a misbranded drug into the U.S. He faces up to three years in federal prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal attorneys urge the public to report coronavirus scammers by calling the National Center for Disaster Fraud hotline (1-866-720-5721) or to the NCDF e-mail address \u003ca href=\"mailto:disaster@leo.gov\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">disaster@leo.gov\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The coronavirus continues to hit people in their 70s and 80s the hardest, but officials say it is a mistake for young people to think they can downplay their risk of getting COVID-19. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/week-dies-coronavirus-death-toll-crosses-5000-200402064226778.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">six-week-old baby\u003c/a> from Connecticut and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/us/california-coronavirus-death-child.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">17-year-old\u003c/a> from Los Angeles are two of the youngest victims in the U.S. to die of COVID19.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A recent \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm?s_cid=mm6912e2_w\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention shows that around 40 percent of individuals hospitalized by the virus are between 20 to 54-years-old. And, currently about \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/nCOV2019.aspx#COVID-19%20by%20the%20Numbers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">half\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the positive cases in California are people under the age of 50. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“A low risk should never be confused with no risk,” says Dr. Irving Steinberg, associate professor of clinical pharmacy and pediatrics at the University of Southern California.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Steinberg says young people with pre-existing conditions like cystic fibrosis, asthma or pulmonary problems; as well as patients who are taking steroids for various conditions, are likely at a higher risk to the coronavirus. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He also suggests vaping or smoking could be a risk factor. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Anything that might be trashing the lungs in terms of their ability to withstand infection or in terms of the tissue integrity of that lung surface would be a risk category that we should be looking at carefully,” Steinberg says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>“One of the most difficult weeks of my life.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colin Finnerty wonders if his nicotine habit could be why he nearly lost his life to COVID19. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I did vape and I did smoke and it did hit me super, super, super violently,” says Finnerty. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1960835\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1960835 size-full\" title=\"Courtesy of Colin Finnerty\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/04/IMG_4211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/04/IMG_4211.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/04/IMG_4211-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colin Finnerty snowboarding in Sun Valley, Idaho. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Colin Finnerty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The blond, athletic 21-year-old lives in a coronavirus \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/30/824021984/a-resort-town-becomes-a-covid-19-hot-spot-and-says-stay-away\">hotspot\u003c/a> in south central Idaho. Until he fell ill, he was a lift operator at Sun Valley Ski Resort.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Initially, Finnerty felt like he caught a cold. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Like an everyday thing,” says Finnerty. “I really didn’t think twice about it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A few days passed, and then suddenly he woke up early one night drenched in sweat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I feel like I’m in a sauna,” says Finnerty. “I felt like I was melting, like my brain was like trying to force its way out of my skull.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He was overcome by waves of dizziness, delusion and nausea. Finnerty’s temperature spiked to 103.9 °F. He spent seven hours slouched over a toilet vomiting until he dry heaved painfully. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“So I started to panic,” he says. “I was freaking out.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It started to register that this could be COVID19, but it was hard to believe, because he had heard over and over that people his age are not generally at risk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eventually, Finnerty’s mother begged him to go to the hospital. He was diagnosed with mild pneumonia in one lung. A nurse collected a sample to test for COVID19 and urged him to self-quarantine. He was discharged with a bottle of antibiotics. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two days later, Finnerty raced back to the emergency room. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He looked like he wanted to jump out of his skin, clearly afraid of what was going on,” says Dr. Terry O’Connor, an emergency room physician at St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center. “This does not look like anything else you’ve really seen before.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nurses ordered morphine to relieve Finnerty’s pain. Further testing revealed pneumonia in \u003cem>both\u003c/em> lungs. They put him on oxygen support, and an ambulance rushed Finnerty to a larger urban hospital three hours east in Boise, Idaho. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He spent the next six days coughing up blood, suffering from extreme dehydration, high fevers and body aches. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This was one of the most difficult weeks of my life,” says Finnerty. “Not only physically the pain, but also mentally being in isolation.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His family members were not allowed to visit, and medical staff limited rounds in an effort to preserve masks and gowns. Finnerty says nurses only delivered water, food and pain meds about every four hours. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A positive test result for COVID19 didn’t arrive until a few days after he was discharged. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he lies in bed at home recovering, surrounded by Pokémon and Donkey Kong figurines, Finnerty kicks himself for vaping for so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scientists Worry Vaping and COVID19 Are A Bad Combo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, warned in a recent \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/noras-blog/2020/03/covid-19-potential-implications-individuals-substance-use-disorders\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">blog\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> post that people who vape might suffer more from the virus because it attacks the respiratory system. She wrote, “Vaping, like smoking, may also harm lung health. Whether it can lead to COPD is still unknown, but emerging evidence suggests that exposure to aerosols from e-cigarettes harms the cells of the lung and diminishes the ability to respond to infection.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A recent \u003cem>British Medical Journal\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">review\u003c/a> of the research on the respiratory effects of e-cigarettes concludes that, “… e-cigarette aerosol can negatively affect multiple aspects of lung cellular and organ physiology and immune function, e-cigarettes will likely prove to have at least some pulmonary toxicity with chronic and possibly even short term use.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If people are injuring their lungs with either cigarette smoking or vaping or aerosolized marijuana,” says \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Michael Schivo, pulmonologist at UC Davis Health. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I would definitely think that that could predispose them to worse infections and worse clinical disease when they’re exposed to the respiratory virus,” he says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schivo emphasizes that concrete data on the coronavirus and \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">vaping doesn’t exist yet\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>But he assumes that vaping could lead to worse disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would not surprise me in the least to discover that vaping was a serious risk factor for severity as well as the amount of viral shedding (a public health concern),” said Dr. Jeffrey Gotts, a pulmonologist at UCSF in an email. “But as a clinician and scientist, we need to wait to see what the studies show.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anti-vaping advocates worry kids might turn to nicotine devices more than usual right now due to boredom, anxiety and social isolation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",null]'>“W\u003c/span>\u003c/span>e won’t know what the unintended consequences of the shutdown is,” s\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",null]'>ays Dr. Elisa Tong, an internal medicine doctor at UC Davis. “Kids are\u003c/span>\u003c/span> already experimenting with nicotine and marijuana at school in pretty shockingly high numbers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He also suggests vaping or smoking could be a risk factor. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Anything that might be trashing the lungs in terms of their ability to withstand infection or in terms of the tissue integrity of that lung surface would be a risk category that we should be looking at carefully,” Steinberg says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>“One of the most difficult weeks of my life.”\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colin Finnerty wonders if his nicotine habit could be why he nearly lost his life to COVID19. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I did vape and I did smoke and it did hit me super, super, super violently,” says Finnerty. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1960835\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1960835 size-full\" title=\"Courtesy of Colin Finnerty\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/04/IMG_4211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/04/IMG_4211.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/04/IMG_4211-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colin Finnerty snowboarding in Sun Valley, Idaho. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Colin Finnerty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The blond, athletic 21-year-old lives in a coronavirus \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/30/824021984/a-resort-town-becomes-a-covid-19-hot-spot-and-says-stay-away\">hotspot\u003c/a> in south central Idaho. 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He spent seven hours slouched over a toilet vomiting until he dry heaved painfully. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“So I started to panic,” he says. “I was freaking out.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It started to register that this could be COVID19, but it was hard to believe, because he had heard over and over that people his age are not generally at risk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eventually, Finnerty’s mother begged him to go to the hospital. He was diagnosed with mild pneumonia in one lung. A nurse collected a sample to test for COVID19 and urged him to self-quarantine. He was discharged with a bottle of antibiotics. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two days later, Finnerty raced back to the emergency room. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He looked like he wanted to jump out of his skin, clearly afraid of what was going on,” says Dr. Terry O’Connor, an emergency room physician at St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center. “This does not look like anything else you’ve really seen before.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nurses ordered morphine to relieve Finnerty’s pain. Further testing revealed pneumonia in \u003cem>both\u003c/em> lungs. They put him on oxygen support, and an ambulance rushed Finnerty to a larger urban hospital three hours east in Boise, Idaho. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He spent the next six days coughing up blood, suffering from extreme dehydration, high fevers and body aches. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This was one of the most difficult weeks of my life,” says Finnerty. “Not only physically the pain, but also mentally being in isolation.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His family members were not allowed to visit, and medical staff limited rounds in an effort to preserve masks and gowns. 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So I’m the longest person in quarantine with corona, having been in quarantine now since February 4.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the ordeal, he has not lost his sense of humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl, who owns the local radio station KHTS in Santa Clarita with his wife Jeri, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.hometownstation.com/home-town-station/carl-goldman-coronavirus-journals-316093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blogging\u003c/a> about his coronavirus experience since the couple was quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess. The trip through Southeast Asia was a Christmas present from Carl to his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1958262/whats-it-like-to-be-in-quarantine-with-the-coronavirus-meet-carl-34-days-counting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told you Carl’s story\u003c/a>, he was 34 days into his quarantine and doing well at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, but still testing positive for the COVID-19 virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1959718\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1959718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/03/carl-blogging.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/03/carl-blogging.jpg 620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/03/carl-blogging-160x85.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While in quarantine with coronavirus, Carl Goldman blogged about his experience for KHTS in Santa Clarita, a radio station he owns with his wife. \u003ccite>(KHTS Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He told us about his flight back to the U.S. spent in isolation with a 103-degree fever, celebrating his 67th birthday in biocontainment lockdown, and logging his 10,000 steps a day from the confines of a tiny hospital room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the fever, which Carl said had broken by the time he got to Omaha on Feb. 17, his only symptoms were some shortness of breath early on and a lingering dry cough. For several weeks, he says, he’s felt pretty healthy. Yet Carl’s body was slow to shed the virus — something he says may be related to Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune disorder that gives him numbness in his hands and feet. But his doctors really aren’t sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl’s flight home to California left Nebraska on Monday, March 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how does it feel to be back home after all this time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as I loved Omaha and would love to go back in a different time and different era and see everybody that were my angels there and actually get to see Omaha,” Carl said, “I was thrilled to be home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A good friend picked him up from Van Nuys Airport with a giant tub of peanut butter and chocolate ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery, Carl’s favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1959716\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 264px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1959716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/03/carl-negative-test.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/03/carl-negative-test.jpg 264w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/03/carl-negative-test-160x182.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Goldman received his first negative COVID-19 virus test result after testing positive for 27 days. Medical staff delivered the news on a sticky note. \u003ccite>(KHTS Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I dug into that and didn’t realize how much I’d missed stuff until I started re-experiencing things like that,” Carl said. “Then, of course, getting home, being able to hug my wife, pet my dogs, have them lick me, and just be back in my home after being away for two full months was just a delight. And being able to go outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeri was also quarantined in Nebraska, but never tested positive for the virus and was discharged two weeks before her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl had already made the decision to self-isolate at home for 14 days upon returning to Santa Clarita. While he says public support for what he has been through has been overwhelmingly warm, concerns from a small portion of the community prompted him to be extra cautious about his re-entry. 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The trip through Southeast Asia was a Christmas present from Carl to his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1958262/whats-it-like-to-be-in-quarantine-with-the-coronavirus-meet-carl-34-days-counting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told you Carl’s story\u003c/a>, he was 34 days into his quarantine and doing well at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, but still testing positive for the COVID-19 virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1959718\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1959718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/03/carl-blogging.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/03/carl-blogging.jpg 620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/03/carl-blogging-160x85.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While in quarantine with coronavirus, Carl Goldman blogged about his experience for KHTS in Santa Clarita, a radio station he owns with his wife. \u003ccite>(KHTS Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He told us about his flight back to the U.S. spent in isolation with a 103-degree fever, celebrating his 67th birthday in biocontainment lockdown, and logging his 10,000 steps a day from the confines of a tiny hospital room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the fever, which Carl said had broken by the time he got to Omaha on Feb. 17, his only symptoms were some shortness of breath early on and a lingering dry cough. 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But his doctors really aren’t sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl’s flight home to California left Nebraska on Monday, March 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how does it feel to be back home after all this time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as I loved Omaha and would love to go back in a different time and different era and see everybody that were my angels there and actually get to see Omaha,” Carl said, “I was thrilled to be home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A good friend picked him up from Van Nuys Airport with a giant tub of peanut butter and chocolate ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery, Carl’s favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1959716\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 264px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1959716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/03/carl-negative-test.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/03/carl-negative-test.jpg 264w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/03/carl-negative-test-160x182.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Goldman received his first negative COVID-19 virus test result after testing positive for 27 days. 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"content": "\u003cp>Pregnancy can sometimes be an uncertain and stressful period in the best of circumstances. But during a pandemic, that anxiety can quickly multiply. Researchers are working quickly to learn more about what the new coronavirus — as well as its impact on our daily lives — means right now for people who are pregnant. And health care providers are game-planning with mothers about how to best manage care in light of growing limits on public contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we know so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Am I More at Risk If I’m Pregnant??\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The good news is that thus far there hasn’t been any indication that pregnant women are more severely affected” by the novel virus, says\u003ca href=\"https://med.emory.edu/departments/gynecology-obstetrics/profile/?u=DJAMIES\"> Dr. Denise Jamieson\u003c/a>, chair of the department of gynecology and obstetrics at Emory Healthcare and a senior author of a prepress\u003ca href=\"https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(20)30197-6/fulltext\"> review paper\u003c/a> slated to publish in the \u003cem>American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as a welcome surprise, as the similar coronavirus that caused SARS had a much higher fatality rate for pregnant people (about 25%, according to the limited data available from the 2003 outbreak) than for the general population (about 10%).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current, hopeful assessments of the new coronavirus are based in large part on a\u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30360-3/fulltext\"> study\u003c/a> published online last month in \u003cem>The Lancet\u003c/em> of nine pregnant women in their third trimester in Wuhan, China, who had pneumonia caused by COVID-19. None of the women developed severe illness, and all of their babies were born healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“According to the current evidence in China, the clinical performance of pregnant women with COVID-19 is consistent with that of ordinary adults,” says\u003ca href=\"https://icg.pku.edu.cn/en/research/faculty/269373.htm\"> Jie Qiao\u003c/a>, director of the National Clinical Research Center of Obstetrics and Gynecology Disease in China, who was not involved in that study but authored a\u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30365-2/fulltext#%20\"> commentary\u003c/a> about it in the same issue of \u003cem>The Lancet\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamieson notes, however, that “we don’t have very much evidence from this coronavirus.” And although the data from third-trimester pregnancies appeared reassuring, we don’t yet know much about the first or second trimester during a COVID-19 illness. So Jamieson, Qiao and other experts are closely following the evolving data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Extra Precautions Should I Take While Pregnant? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immune system’s efficacy dips during pregnancy, which places pregnant people at a higher risk for contracting many transmissible illnesses — whether foodborne or respiratory. “They should be considered an at-risk group,” Jamieson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official recommendations during pregnancy are currently about the same as for the general population, including avoiding crowds, staying away from sick people, washing hands frequently and not touching the face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Qiao takes these suggestions a step further, adding that she recommends avoiding public areas if possible — and wearing a face mask when out. And talk to your doctor about telemedicine, to avoid unnecessary visits to the office. “Except important pregnancy checkups,” she says, “consulting [your] doctors online is recommended.” Many offices are already working to consolidate in-person appointments (for example, if someone is coming in for an ultrasound, a routine prenatal check might be added to the same visit).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to personal steps, Jamieson notes that it is important to consider how such a widespread outbreak could strain the health system, leading to disruptions in normal care. To prepare for that, she says, she advises that pregnant people have their medical records on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ucla.edu/experts/preview/578561302cfac209100154a4/\">Neil Silverman\u003c/a>, a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, adds that hospitals are already ramping up to increase the capacity to care for pregnant women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Kind of Contingency Planning Should I Do for Delivery? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big change that is already occurring in many labor and delivery wards is that they are limiting the number of visitors who can accompany anyone admitted for delivery — including through the postpartum stay. “This has been, reasonably, upsetting,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohsu.edu/providers/rachel-pilliod-md\">Rachel Pilliod\u003c/a>, an OB-GYN who teaches obstetrics and gynecology at Oregon Health & Science University. “We understand that giving birth is more than a physiological process,” she says, and many families have expectations about sharing the occasion in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She advises women who might deliver during the pandemic to ask their provider and the place where they intend to deliver about current rules on visitors. Typically the limit has been to one other healthy adult for the duration of the hospital stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of delivery, Jamieson advocates that “every pregnant woman and her family should have a plan, which should include what would happen if she or an additional caregiver gets sick.” For example, if a partner becomes ill with COVID-19 and is trying to self-isolate, is there another caregiver who can step in to help care for a newborn and mother? And because the illness is riskier for older adults, if the other caregiver might have once meant a new grandparent, a younger adult might be a better backup if possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If I Do Get Sick, How Do I Protect My Newborn? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do get sick near your delivery date with confirmed or even suspected COVID-19, there are special precautions to be aware of. Though new mothers might not be at higher risk themselves, it is important to avoid passing the virus to a newborn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early research has not shown any evidence that the virus can be transmitted in utero, during delivery or through breast milk. But transmission can occur after birth when infants are in close contact with someone who has the illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This issue raises challenging decisions for families and health care providers. The practice of keeping a newborn in the same hospital room as the mother after birth (known as “rooming-in”) has become popular in many U.S. hospitals. But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently recommends avoiding rooming-in for new mothers with diagnosed or suspected COVID-19 infections. The\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/inpatient-obstetric-healthcare-guidance.html\"> guidelines\u003c/a> (as of publication) say these infants should be placed in isolation and themselves be treated as presumed coronavirus cases, being cared for by healthy caregivers and medical staff in protective garb. “The main purpose is to avoid close contact with mothers, isolating respiratory tract transmission and possible infection,” Qiao says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pilliod notes that in her practice, the CDC guidelines will be discussed with families so that they understand the risks and trade-offs of their care decisions. Healthy family members may have the choice to spend time with the newborns in isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If an infant is taken to isolation directly after birth, the CDC recommends that ill women who would like to provide breast milk for their infant use a breast pump, being sure to practice good pumping hygiene. Direct breastfeeding could also be possible if the infected mother wears a mask, but it is not currently the CDC’s first choice. “It’s a difficult decision, and I think the mother needs to be involved in the conversation about the risks,” Jamieson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Else Do I Need to Know If I Get Sick During Pregnancy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research is underway, but there is not currently a definitive treatment or vaccine for COVID-19. Once these do emerge, it’s a distinct possibility that they won’t initially be approved for use during pregnancy and lactation. “This is one of the big concerns,” Jamieson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, says Silverman, it is important to “be aware of the potential symptoms so [pregnant women] can call their health provider if they have any,” which include fever, respiratory symptoms or possibly even diarrhea. 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Synthesizing all of that information will likely take additional time, but it will eventually help better guide public health and health care recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the best offense remains a good defense. And that means pregnant people — and those around them — should follow the best current personal and social hygiene recommendations. “We keep pregnant women and their newborns safer by keeping everyone around them healthy as well,” Pilliod says. “It takes a village to keep us all safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Pregnant+And+Worried+About+Coronavirus%3F+How+To+Stay+Safe+And+Make+A+Game+Plan&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Pregnancy can sometimes be an uncertain and stressful period in the best of circumstances. But during a pandemic, that anxiety can quickly multiply. Researchers are working quickly to learn more about what the new coronavirus — as well as its impact on our daily lives — means right now for people who are pregnant. And health care providers are game-planning with mothers about how to best manage care in light of growing limits on public contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we know so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Am I More at Risk If I’m Pregnant??\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The good news is that thus far there hasn’t been any indication that pregnant women are more severely affected” by the novel virus, says\u003ca href=\"https://med.emory.edu/departments/gynecology-obstetrics/profile/?u=DJAMIES\"> Dr. Denise Jamieson\u003c/a>, chair of the department of gynecology and obstetrics at Emory Healthcare and a senior author of a prepress\u003ca href=\"https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(20)30197-6/fulltext\"> review paper\u003c/a> slated to publish in the \u003cem>American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as a welcome surprise, as the similar coronavirus that caused SARS had a much higher fatality rate for pregnant people (about 25%, according to the limited data available from the 2003 outbreak) than for the general population (about 10%).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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So Jamieson, Qiao and other experts are closely following the evolving data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Extra Precautions Should I Take While Pregnant? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immune system’s efficacy dips during pregnancy, which places pregnant people at a higher risk for contracting many transmissible illnesses — whether foodborne or respiratory. “They should be considered an at-risk group,” Jamieson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official recommendations during pregnancy are currently about the same as for the general population, including avoiding crowds, staying away from sick people, washing hands frequently and not touching the face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Qiao takes these suggestions a step further, adding that she recommends avoiding public areas if possible — and wearing a face mask when out. And talk to your doctor about telemedicine, to avoid unnecessary visits to the office. “Except important pregnancy checkups,” she says, “consulting [your] doctors online is recommended.” Many offices are already working to consolidate in-person appointments (for example, if someone is coming in for an ultrasound, a routine prenatal check might be added to the same visit).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to personal steps, Jamieson notes that it is important to consider how such a widespread outbreak could strain the health system, leading to disruptions in normal care. To prepare for that, she says, she advises that pregnant people have their medical records on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ucla.edu/experts/preview/578561302cfac209100154a4/\">Neil Silverman\u003c/a>, a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, adds that hospitals are already ramping up to increase the capacity to care for pregnant women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Kind of Contingency Planning Should I Do for Delivery? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big change that is already occurring in many labor and delivery wards is that they are limiting the number of visitors who can accompany anyone admitted for delivery — including through the postpartum stay. “This has been, reasonably, upsetting,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohsu.edu/providers/rachel-pilliod-md\">Rachel Pilliod\u003c/a>, an OB-GYN who teaches obstetrics and gynecology at Oregon Health & Science University. “We understand that giving birth is more than a physiological process,” she says, and many families have expectations about sharing the occasion in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She advises women who might deliver during the pandemic to ask their provider and the place where they intend to deliver about current rules on visitors. 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