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Virologist Christian Drosten in the podcast: How best to strengthen your immune system against the corona virus

2020-04-06T15:39:46.772Z


The number of coronavirus infections continues to rise. Christian Drosten explains at NDR Info how we can best prevent infection.


The number of coronavirus infections continues to rise. Christian Drosten explains at NDR Info how we can best prevent infection.

  • Since March 20, 2020, exit restrictions have been in effect in Bavaria due to the corona virus *, shortly afterwards they were set for the entire Federal Republic.
  • Virologist Christian Drosten explains in a podcast on NDR Info why we have to be patient - and how we can protect ourselves against the virus .
  • In addition, he provides information about the findings that can now be drawn from the Corona cases in Munich.

Update from April 6th: Expert reveals how best to prevent a coronavirus infection

In an interview with NDR editor Anja Martini, Christian Drosten, as director of the Institute of Virology at the Charité in Berlin, reveals which measures against coronavirus infection he considers useful. Keep your distance: that's the order of the day. According to Drosten, this should currently be observed in every situation - whether when shopping or during a jogging session. "Of course it is always good to be physically fit. Certainly it is not the case that you get infected while running in the park just because you meet other people. That’s why you shouldn’t worry about going outside and running I think I can recommend it, but that’s where it ends, "said Drosten in the NDR podcast.

From a medical point of view, nutritional supplements such as vitamin D * or vitamin C are only recommended for people with a medically diagnosed deficiency - for healthy adults, Drosten sees no added value in the current situation : "I have never heard of a resounding effect anywhere , so that one would now say, in the context of such an ongoing infection epidemiology, one has to recommend this ( editor's note: taking food supplements such as vitamin C ) specifically.

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Corona virus update from April 2nd: We can learn from the corona virus cases in Munich

Virologist Christian Drosten regularly provides information on the current situation relating to the corona virus in a podcast by NDR Info. In the episode of March 30, 2020, when asked why we were relatively well off in Germany with regard to infected people and corona deaths worldwide, he explained: "We rolled out a very large diagnostic force extremely early on, and we therefore did it all noticed our cases early on. This is because you had this Munich cohort right at the beginning, when it became clear that you could prevent this from spreading further with great force. That was a success story, this Munich cohort, that you controlled it like that. "

All health authorities also reacted immediately and were careful, continued Drosten. The diagnostic laboratories were able to make diagnoses. So one could also find mild cases. Germany is thus in the Coronavirus crisis with the country that would best do diagnostics.

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"This leads to various successor effects," said Drosten. For example, that the corona patients in Germany are relatively young, the average would be around 48 years. In other countries, the average age of the sick is much higher.

"One thing that is often forgotten is that this virus - and I can say that because I have a lot of experience with another corona virus, with the MERS virus in the Arab world: These viruses are nosocomial viruses, so Hospital-borne viruses . " Many of the patients were thus infected in hospitals in addition to the normal infection in the population. This mostly affects older people and those with previous illnesses. If the coronavirus penetrates a hospital, the average age of the infected is also shifted.

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So far, this has been found in Munich coronavirus patients

A study of the cases in Munich, which is already available to the public, includes two important things . One is the transmission rate . Many cases occurred in young people who met privately and became infected in this way. Drosten calls this the "Secondary Attack Rate".

Risk contacts at work and in leisure time are also important. "This is a very informative partial examination. We had 217 patients here and eleven of them were infected over this time. Almost all of them were symptomatic. This is a very important perception." Five percent of these high-risk contacts ** were infected. Symptoms that were only very slight, such as scratching the throat, were also listed. Only one patient was asymptomatic in the study. One person was even infected because she was sitting back to back with an already infected person in a canteen who asked them about the salt shaker.

** High-risk contact: At least 15 minutes face to face, close to the conversation.

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* Merkur.de and hna.de are part of the Germany-wide Ippen digital editorial network.

Source: merkur

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