COV-Ed: How to protect yourself and others against the spread of Coronavirus.

Coronavirus, the virus responsible for causing COVID19, is spread through liquid droplets. Watch this video to find out how this can happen, and what we can do to protect ourselves and our loved ones. As we work as a community to reduce the spread of Coronavirus, taking these precautions continues to be of utmost importance.

8 STEPS TO PREVENT THE SPREAD:

1. Cough or sneeze into your elbow.
2. If you’re sick, stay at home.
3. Physical Distancing: BC Centre for Disease Control recommends keeping a 2+ metre distance from others in public.
4. You may wear a non-medical mask in public spaces, in addition to other prevention strategies like physical distancing. Since you can be infected and have little or no symptoms, mask wearing could help prevent spread. If you wear a mask, wear it right. Don’t touch the front, wash your hands before putting it on or taking it off, and clean it after use.
5. Routinely clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces.
6. Avoid touching your face.
7. Regularly wash your hands with soap and water (or alcohol based rub if not visibly dirty) for 20 seconds.
8. Lastly, stay home as much as possible!

Let’s keep our community safe and healthy!
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COV-Ed is a new video series created by med students in British Columbia, Canada & produced by UBC Faculty of Medicine. We aim to provide educational content about COVID-19 for the public.

COV-Ed is a division of the BC COVID-19 Medical Student Response Team (MSRT), a student-led organization coordinating initiatives to support BC physicians, public health authorities, and the community at large. Visit their website here:


Our video content is curated and reviewed by our med student team & Dr. Mary Kestler, a UBC Faculty of Medicine faculty member and Infectious Disease doctor based out of Vancouver..
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Credits:
JENNIFER WILDI - Chief Script Writer
ALI AZARI - Script Writer & Editor
GABRIEL BLANK - Script Editor, Co-Coordinator, & Opening Card Singer
ROD VAFAEI - Script Editor & Co-Coordinator
ZACHARY ROTHMAN - Story Editor
EMMANUEL TSE - Opening Card Singer
MELISSA KONG - Editor, Script Editor, Opening Card Animator, & Narrator
KEVIN ZHANG - Editor, Script Editor, & Opening Card Animator
NANCY DUAN - Graphic Design Lead, Storyboard Artist, & Script Editor
HEATHER REYNOLDS - Graphic Designer
FEI GE - Assistant Graphic Designer
KAREN WANG - Assistant Graphic Designer
DR. MARY KESTLER (Infectious Diseases) - Content Expert
HASAN HAMZE - Student Content Reviewer
ZACHARY ROTHMAN - Senior Producer & Project Oversight
SAM MCGUINNESS - Technical Producer
Animation:
GLOO STUDIOS (Vancouver)
CASEY VIGUSHIN - Lead Animator

Translation Credits: AFD-Chile, Rahul, Tejomayee, Mika B, Debora Andrade Pereira, Dahd, Nita Thamrin, Phuong Vy, , Sabina Magliocco, Valeria Kolesova
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Music:
INTRO - Soularflair, Cue 2b - Quirky-Pretty-Beautiful-Synth arpeggios-with hard kicks (Human Conditioning) (CC, NC)
BACKGROUND - Podington Bear, SideCar (CC, NC)
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All content aligns with guidelines set by the BC Centre for Disease Control and the World Health Organization as of April 27th, 2020.

For more info: please visit the following sources:
BC Centre for Disease Control. (n.d.). Prevention & Risks. Retrieved from
Doremalen, N. V., Bushmaker, T., Morris, D. H., Holbrook, M. G., Gamble, A., Williamson, B. N., … Munster, V. J. (2020). Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1. New England Journal of Medicine, 382(16), 1564–1567. doi: 10.1056/nejmc2004973

- Huang, R., Xia, J., Chen, Y., Shan, C., & Wu, C. (2020). A family cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infection involving 11 patients in Nanjing, China. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30147-X
- Li, Q., Guan, X., Wu, P., Wang, X., Zhou, L., Tong, Y., … Feng, Z. (2020). Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia. New England Journal of Medicine, 382(13), 1199–1207. doi: 10.1056/nejmoa2001316
- Ong, S. W. X., Tan, Y. K., Chia, P. Y., Lee, T. H., Ng, O. T., Wong, M. S. Y., & Marimuthu, K. (2020). Air, Surface Environmental, and Personal Protective Equipment Contamination by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) From a Symptomatic Patient. JAMA. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.3227
- To, K. K.-W., Tsang, O. T.-Y., Leung, W.-S., Tam, A. R., Wu, T.-C., Lung, D. C., … Yuen, K.-Y. (2020). Temporal profiles of viral load in posterior oropharyngeal saliva samples and serum antibody responses during infection by SARS-CoV-2: an observational cohort study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30196-1
- World Health Organization. (2020, March 31). Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public. Retrieved from

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