Alanna Shaikh : Why COVID-19 is hitting us now — and how to prepare for the next outbreak

Alanna Shaikh·TEDxSMU

Why COVID-19 is hitting us now-and how to prepare for the next outbreak 

Summary 

I think that before we think why COVID-19 is hitting us now, we have to stop spreading it. Every day, people are dying and many people claim that the ways are bad but shameful incidents of xenophobia happened in a lot of places. We mustn’t have time to do those. 

Stop doing those, we have to cooperate with one another. 1)

Don’t wear a face mask that should be for sick people and health care providers. 2)

Understand that it’s really hard to get a good quarantine in place and to set up travel restrictions but it’s not the best. Let’s stop our moving as possible. 3)

Wash your hands a lot, sanitize your phone, not to use it as often in public, and don’t touch your face. Of course, don’t rub your eyes, don’t bite your fingernails. 4)

Stop stockpiling!! It’s just blind panic. 5)

The most important thing is that we have to know that this is not the last major outbreak we’re ever going to see. There’s going to be more outbreaks and epidemics. That’s a given. This is a result of the way that we are interacting with our planet. 

The world have to learn how to stop outbreaks for new diseases. We should identify it and treat it. 

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zo·on·o·sis / zo͞oˈnōsəs, zōˈnōsəs/noun/

a disease which can be transmitted to humans from animals.