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00:10 Hello, my name is CA Murray.
00:11 And welcome to Coronavirus Report. 00:15 I'm in the company of Pastor Stephen Bohr 00:18 and our resource person Dr. Milton Teske. 00:21 Good to have you gentlemen here. 00:23 When we did our initial program, 00:26 it occurred to us that we might do well 00:29 to give you updates each week, 00:32 the situation is so fluid, 00:33 so dynamic and has so many changes, 00:35 and so many wrinkles, 00:37 and so many nuances even things that we forgot to talk about, 00:41 that we thought we would do well, 00:43 to bring you continual reports as long as we can 00:47 and as long as this emergency lasts. 00:49 As things come up, 00:50 as new information comes to the fore, 00:53 we wanted to make sure that you're aware of it 00:55 and anything that can affect your life, your work, 00:58 how you live and what you do if we can help you with that, 01:01 We wanted to do that. 01:03 So, gentlemen, we want to sort of launch out, 01:05 pastor, I mean you got a number of questions. 01:07 I've got a number of questions. 01:08 And we know that the good doctor 01:10 has the answers. 01:11 We pray that He does. 01:13 And perhaps we should invite you 01:17 if you do have any questions to call, 01:18 you could sent to SUM TV and leave your question 01:21 because there may be something in particular 01:23 that troubles you and that perhaps 01:25 we can help you with. 01:27 So, Pastor Bohr, what do you got? 01:30 Okay, Dr. Teske, I have a question. 01:32 You know, you have a lot of talk on television 01:34 about flattening the curve. 01:36 Yes. 01:37 So the question is, what does that mean 01:39 flattening the curve 01:40 and how can the curve be flattened? 01:42 Yeah. 01:43 So if you graph out on a graph the epidemic 01:49 that's occurring around us now 01:50 what you find in a local and given area, over time, 01:56 it starts doubling, doubling, doubling, 01:58 you get the steep curve that goes way up really high, 02:01 eventually, that doesn't keep going forever, eventually, 02:04 you run out of people to infect, 02:06 and it comes back down. 02:08 The problem is, this curve is so high 02:11 up at the high parts of this curve here, 02:13 up at this one, 02:14 it's an the amount of people getting sick, 02:16 the amount of people needing hospitalization, 02:19 the amount of people needing an ICU, 02:21 the amount of people needing to be going on ventilators 02:24 far exceeds the number of hospital beds and ICU beds 02:27 and ventilators available. 02:29 And we've seen evidences of that in Wuhan in China. 02:33 We've seen that now in Italy. 02:36 And we really don't want to see it here. 02:38 Although we're starting to see it down in New Orleans. 02:41 Just recently, it was number of doubling times out 02:45 from the Mardi Gras celebration they had there, 02:50 they didn't cancel it, 02:51 they brought in 1.4 million visitors 02:56 from out and they all congregated 02:59 and partied there for some time. 03:02 And now the results of that 03:05 we're seeing in the local epidemic there. 03:09 All of these epidemics, although we look at them 03:12 as a whole nation or as a whole world, 03:14 they're all local epidemics that are occurring here, 03:17 there, and wherever. 03:19 You know, the pandemic component of it, 03:21 the fact that, yeah, everybody... 03:23 It's spreading everywhere. 03:24 But it's not spreading everywhere equally. 03:26 The remaining places here in the Central Valley 03:29 of California right now, 03:31 we've got a few cases in Fresno, 03:33 a couple in Hanford, just by and large, 03:37 we're still ahead of that curve. 03:39 We haven't gone up that curve yet. 03:42 And the idea is, we want to flatten that 03:46 and we don't want this steep climb, 03:48 we would like to slow it down, delay it. 03:52 Even if it's eventually going to get here, 03:54 we would like it to get here real slow and gradual 03:58 if we could rather than all over a period of a week or two 04:01 and not have enough hospital beds 04:03 and ventilators for everybody. 04:05 So if we can slow it down, 04:08 delay it and get a much more slow, 04:11 gradual rise over time, 04:14 then we're not going to exceed all of those hospital, 04:17 you know, capacity issues and ventilator capacity issues. 04:21 And as well as the longer time goes, 04:26 the more study they've done when more we know 04:28 which things help and which things don't help. 04:32 So we think... 04:33 So a follow-up question. 04:35 So when you say that when the curve reaches 04:37 a certain height, it starts going down 04:39 because there's no one else to infect. 04:41 You know, in New York, 04:43 you have like 50,000 or 60,000 people infected 04:45 but there's millions of people that live there. 04:47 Yes, but that 50,000 that you're saying are infected 04:53 are the ones they've actually tested 04:55 and got a positive test on. 04:58 We don't know how many haven't been tested and still have it. 05:02 Apparently, a large number of people 05:04 get very minor illnesses with it. 05:07 And sometimes as much as 30%, some studies are saying 05:12 actually have no symptoms but yet they're infected 05:15 and spreading the virus. 05:16 And so there's a real problem. 05:18 In other words, it's spreading through the community 05:20 and much larger numbers that end up in the hospital, 05:24 it's just that there's a certain percentage 05:27 that are going to get that sick 05:28 and their life is going to depend on 05:30 additional respiratory support or ICU and ventilator support 05:35 to survive this. 05:37 And we'd like to have enough ventilators 05:39 and ICU beds for everybody. 05:41 But if everybody gets sick at once, 05:43 there's not going to be... 05:45 Sure. 05:46 In Italy, you know, I'm hearing stories 05:47 where they're just, they decide who gets a ventilator 05:50 and who doesn't, you know, and everyone else, 05:52 they get put in a room, but they know 05:54 they're going to die because they're not supplying 05:56 this enough support to keep them going. 05:58 And we really don't want to see that here. 06:00 We're not there yet here. 06:02 But we're really pushing it, 06:05 I read a report just yesterday from an ER doc in New Orleans, 06:10 and they've got every bed, you know, they're swamped, 06:13 they're in the ER, 06:14 they've got every bed in the hospital beds, 06:16 they've got additional capacity hospitals that opened up, 06:20 you know, 50 beds here, and 50 beds, 06:22 all of those are full already. 06:24 And the curve is still going up, 06:25 they're still shooting up here. 06:27 So hopefully, you know, 06:29 the nation's putting all their resources into this 06:32 to try to get more supplies, 06:33 make more capacity, you know, move some patients, 06:36 whatever we can to try to take care of everybody 06:42 and get everybody through this, you know? 06:43 Yeah. 06:45 It's one thing that should be able to bring 06:46 those all together is, you know, 06:48 when people's lives are on the line, 06:50 what can we do? 06:51 And so what are the things that flatten that curve, 06:54 what slows it out? 06:55 Well, what slows the transmission, 06:57 and most places now 06:59 that have any significant infection, 07:02 we have what we call Shelter in Place orders, 07:05 it's a type of self-quarantining 07:09 sort of thing, everybody is supposed to stay home 07:12 and not go around other people 07:14 because you catch it from other people. 07:16 And so if you don't go around and socialize 07:21 and congregate in churches and in sports arenas 07:24 and at schools and any other public place 07:27 that you don't need to, we can slow that curve. 07:31 In other words, it's not going to spread to everybody 07:33 because we're not meeting at the same frequency. 07:37 And so somebody that has it isn't going to be meeting 07:39 all of these people, he might meet one person here 07:42 or something, but it won't be as many. 07:44 So the more we can obey these rules 07:48 that they're putting out these shelters, 07:51 these stay at home orders, really, 07:54 that's probably the most important thing 07:56 we can do right now is to stay at home, 07:59 don't go out and congregate. 08:01 You know, if you need to get some food 08:03 at the grocery store, 08:05 you know, limit it, go through, don't congregate with people, 08:08 stay your distance in line. 08:10 And, you know, pass on through and try not to get infected, 08:15 try not to affect anybody else, 08:17 you don't know you don't have it 08:19 because many people get no symptoms at all. 08:21 And many people that do get symptoms 08:24 were probably infected days before they got their symptoms, 08:27 and we're spreading it for several days. 08:29 And so, you know, 08:31 do everything you can to prevent the spread of it. 08:35 That's how we flatten the curve. 08:36 And there's lots of little strategies 08:38 that health departments are working on 08:40 and the cities and state governments 08:43 and the national government are all putting out trying 08:46 everybody's got their efforts on this. 08:48 But it's important that we do that. 08:50 So we, you know, move it, you know, 08:55 spread it out, space it out. 08:56 So there'll be an ICU bed when you need one. 08:59 Okay. 09:01 Just to follow up on Pastor Bohr's question, 09:04 because we see this bell curve in some areas 09:07 does not necessarily mean we will see it in every area, 09:10 is that not so? 09:12 The only thing that will keep us 09:14 from seeing it in other areas is the very things 09:18 we were just talking about, 09:20 these ways to mitigate it to slow it down, 09:24 to block it back because it is very infectious 09:28 and it is going to spread. 09:30 People move around, they travel. 09:32 One person gets it here, pretty soon other... 09:35 And at first it goes slowly but each, you know, few days, 09:38 when it doubles, it goes up farther, 09:40 and then you double that number and it's up to here. 09:42 And so epidemics accelerate 09:46 and it's going to accelerate here, 09:49 it's going to accelerate little teeny towns 09:51 in the middle of nowhere. 09:54 You know, if we look back at the 1918 pandemic, you know, 09:58 that influenza spread around the world 10:01 and millions died from it, 10:02 while it hits certain areas first, 10:05 just like right now it's hitting New York 10:07 and Washington and New Orleans and LA. 10:13 You know, there it was hit Philadelphia 10:15 and then it went to other cities. 10:17 But it eventually 10:18 was wiping out little villages of Eskimos up and, 10:22 you know, Alaska and other places. 10:24 It keep spreading, it keep spreading, 10:26 it only takes one virus 10:28 to somehow get somewhere that somebody picks up 10:31 and brings back or somebody brings in 10:32 and then it spreads through that area. 10:35 It's a very infectious virus. 10:37 And at this point, 10:38 the whole world is still not resistant, 10:42 there's no immunity to this virus. 10:44 It's a brand-new virus 10:46 out there that the world hasn't seen before. 10:50 And it's going to keep spreading 10:52 until everybody gets infected 10:55 and becomes immune or until we get a vaccine 10:58 that can protect people. 11:00 But until we have immunity out there, 11:04 it's going to keep doing it. 11:07 It's just a matter of when it does it 11:08 and how fast it does it 11:10 if there's anything we can do that will slow that down, 11:15 that'll be real life-saving. 11:17 It doesn't have to keep going up, 11:20 if we stop the spread, 11:21 we can break that. 11:23 But it's those type of public health sort of things 11:26 that we do. 11:27 That's what's going to break that curve, 11:29 that's going to stop that acceleration. 11:33 You know, I was doing a little research on this. 11:36 And what I read was that 11:38 in Philadelphia on September 17, 2018, 11:44 they detected the first case. 11:47 And I'll read, 11:49 they gave a law against coughing, sneezing, 11:52 and spitting in public. 11:54 But 10 days later, 11:55 they had a parade where 200, 000 people attended. 11:58 Yeah, like New Orleans, 12:01 I found out the hard way 12:02 you can't do those kind of things. 12:04 And when the government comes in and says 12:06 all the schools are closed, all your churches are closed. 12:11 I mean, today, we've got live streaming, 12:13 we've got video, we, you know, got the internet, 12:16 we've got all kinds of ways to not be 12:18 in total social isolation. 12:21 But when you start congregating together, 12:24 the same thing now, 12:26 as 100 years ago, it's the same thing. 12:30 So, doctor, social distancing 12:31 really then has to be at or near the top of the list 12:35 as far as flattening 12:36 as far as trying to keep the thing from spreading, 12:38 this is not a joke. 12:40 It's not more than notion. 12:41 It's not really... 12:43 No, it really is the one thing that will break this curve. 12:47 You know, 12:49 we can do our best to get medications 12:51 to mitigate it. 12:52 So far, we've got a number of drugs, 12:54 everybody's trying. 12:55 I'm hearing some reports that they're working, 12:58 I'm hearing other reports that, 13:00 yeah, they're helping a little bit. 13:01 But, you know, 13:02 now it's not like boom, magical cure. 13:06 So, you know, vaccines are coming, 13:09 they're starting some trials of some, 13:11 but that's all down the road in the future. 13:14 And until we're there, 13:17 the only tool we've really got 13:20 is these mitigation methods, this distancing, 13:24 this don't spread it to somebody else. 13:28 You know, 13:30 I'm really concerned about this area, 13:33 which is not heavily populated. 13:36 My wife and I went out this afternoon 13:38 to buy some groceries. 13:40 It's amazing how many cars are out there, 13:43 how many people are in places that are open. 13:45 You know, like, 13:47 the home building companies and supermarkets, 13:52 I mean, traffic is just as usual. 13:55 Now and it wasn't that way 13:57 when they first said stay at home, 13:59 now people have a tendency to slacking off. 14:01 That's so true. 14:03 We noticed right that yesterday. 14:04 Right. 14:06 And because nobody you know is sick yet, nobody's sick. 14:09 I've got a friend in emergency physician up in Washington 14:13 who is now very, very sick. 14:16 You know, he picked it through the ER there. 14:19 But once it starts spreading through the committee, 14:23 what really slowed down and got people doing 14:26 the social license 100 years ago, 14:29 was people got scared when people just started dying 14:32 all around them and relatives. 14:34 I knew everybody you knew was dying. 14:36 Then suddenly, people were scared 14:37 'cause then it's too late. 14:39 It's already everywhere. 14:41 Right, in other words, 14:43 the only way to make these things work 14:44 is to do them before it gets bad. 14:47 So here in the Central Valley of California, 14:50 it's not too late to get ahead doing this stuff. 14:53 But we've got to take it seriously 14:55 and start doing it. 14:57 One thing that's been discussed, 14:59 maybe we should talk about is masks. 15:03 Yeah, that was my next question, masks. 15:05 Yeah, you know, 15:06 this is the right spot to think about that, 15:12 you know, when this first started out, 15:14 the surgeon general got up and announced that 15:17 you don't need to worry about wearing a mask 15:18 because it's not going to help. 15:21 And then a couple of sentences later, 15:23 in that same announcement, he said, 15:24 "We need to save all the masks for our healthcare workers 15:27 because they do work." 15:29 And, well, the bottom line is this virus spreads, 15:33 there's a droplet spread, 15:35 there's probably some degree of airborne spread. 15:40 Masks do make a difference. Hmm. 15:42 There's different kinds of masks, 15:43 different degrees of masks. 15:45 But masking is something that can make a difference. 15:49 We see in Asia, 15:51 you know, in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, 15:53 South Korea, Japan, 15:55 they're very extensively using the mask. 15:58 And in some of those places, 16:00 now, they've actually gotten pretty good control. 16:02 They're flattening out that curve, 16:04 they're slowing things down. 16:06 You know, it's not gone yet, 16:07 but it's not the raging, you know, epidemic, 16:13 like we're seeing here 16:14 where things are still climbing. 16:17 There are different kinds, 16:19 there's what they call an N-95 mask, 16:21 which really filters out the viruses and everything, 16:24 it makes it tight seal around there, 16:25 if you put it on right 16:27 and can really be extremely protective. 16:30 But there's other degrees of mask, 16:32 there's the typical paper, 16:33 what we call surgical masks that surgeons use 16:36 in the operating room all the time. 16:38 And for most cases, 16:39 those are probably going to be very effective 16:41 in terms of, you know, 16:43 protecting you from droplet spread. 16:46 And even they're on the internet, 16:50 you can get the plans to make them 16:52 out of old t shirts or whatever, 16:54 a lot of different materials that you can. 16:56 Somebody even did a study of all the different materials 16:59 and which ones filter how much and which one's better. 17:01 I think at the top of the list was the vacuum cleaner bags 17:06 used as a filter material. 17:09 But making these masks 17:11 and so that they seal around there and stuff 17:13 is a way of protection, 17:15 but probably more important of them 17:18 protecting yourself from the other germs 17:20 is they're going to protect other people from you 17:23 'cause you're not going to know when you've got it. 17:26 You think you don't have it, 17:27 you think you haven't been around anybody, 17:29 but so does everybody else have these... 17:31 You know, in most of our cases now, 17:33 these community acquired cases, 17:35 well, they didn't come from China, 17:37 they just came from downtown somewhere, 17:40 they came from the grocery store, 17:42 you know, the gas station, 17:44 we don't know where they came from, 17:45 you know, somebody you met and talked to. 17:48 And who knows who's got it, you don't know you've got it. 17:51 And you won't know until you get symptoms. 17:54 Some of you won't even get symptoms 17:55 but will continue to spread it. 17:58 If everybody put on a mask, all of that would stop. 18:03 So where did you get a mask? 18:04 Now that is the challenge. 18:06 And, you know, 18:08 masks were universally available 18:10 at every pharmacy 18:12 and home depot before this episode. 18:15 Now everybody's hoarding and buying up. 18:17 You can find somebody that hoarded some, 18:18 they'll probably got a lot extra to share. 18:21 There's a lot of businesses still carry some. 18:24 But you can make your own out of these cloth. 18:27 I mean, you can wear a bandana, 18:29 you know, there's some very simple things 18:30 that can be done that will make a difference. 18:33 And we had a long conversation just yesterday 18:37 among the health officers of the various counties 18:39 here in the Central Valley. 18:41 And we're all seriously considering 18:44 even possibly putting that out as a mandatory, 18:47 you know, order. 18:50 That's still under discussion. 18:51 We'll make an order or just a recommendation. 18:54 But we're really to the point 18:56 where we want to do everything we can 18:58 and things are increasing, 19:00 and we really don't want it to get out of control 19:02 if we can stop it. 19:04 And here's something very simple that can be done 19:06 that can help us keep it under control. 19:08 It can help protect you and your family. 19:11 So I recommend it when you're out in public 19:14 to go ahead and use the masks. 19:18 Yeah. 19:19 Doctor, here's something I've not heard that much about. 19:22 In fact, I think 19:23 the first person I heard it from was you 19:26 this idea of sense of smell as being a symptom. 19:32 Yeah. 19:33 Let's have a talk a little bit about that if you will. 19:35 Yeah. 19:36 So when we think about 19:37 what are the symptoms of this infection, 19:39 everybody thinks of fever, headache, body aches, 19:43 you know, all those flu type things, 19:45 fatigue, runny nose, you start coughing, 19:49 of course it can progress to shortness of breath 19:53 and pneumonia and become more serious. 19:55 But interestingly, 19:57 apparently the virus as it's going in 19:59 and infecting the nasal mucosa and the other tissues 20:02 and starting to spread, 20:04 up in your nasal mucosa 20:05 is where all your sensory cells are for your sense of smell. 20:09 And all these olfactory nerves goes up 20:11 to the part of your brain where you send smell. 20:14 And as the virus attacks the mucosa in that area, 20:19 it's damaging those cells. 20:21 And we find maybe as many as a third of the patients 20:25 lose their sense of smell. 20:27 They can't smell even very strong smells, 20:30 you know, you got a chef and he can't smell curry. 20:33 You know, and I mean, he can't smell garlic. 20:36 I mean, he's the one... 20:37 You know, these are people with acute sense of smell, 20:39 they can smell a dish and tell you exactly 20:41 what herbs and spices are in there. 20:43 And suddenly, he can't even tell you 20:44 if there's garlic in there or not. 20:47 You know, and not only the sense of food 20:50 but even other noxious sense, 20:53 you know, putrid things you wouldn't want to smell 20:56 and be around, 20:57 suddenly, you don't smell those or notice them anymore 21:00 because we've destroyed those nerves up there 21:02 and damaged them badly. 21:04 And they're just not the sense of smell, 21:06 which also blunts your sense of taste 21:09 because much of taste is actually smelling. 21:13 That's the aroma of the food, 21:15 not just the various taste sensors 21:18 on your tongue that are triggering that. 21:21 So suddenly, the food tastes bland, 21:24 it doesn't have the flavor it used to 21:26 and you can't smell the flowers or the perfume anymore. 21:31 That's a real telltale sign 21:34 that, you know, this virus is in there doing its job. 21:37 And many cases, we see this, 21:40 and they haven't had the fever or the cough 21:42 or some of those other things yet. 21:43 So, you know, it's something to be aware of, 21:46 and to think about 21:47 and something that give you a cue that, 21:50 "Hey, I'm sick, 21:52 I need to be really careful and isolated." 21:54 Yeah, I want to ask you about sanitizing other things. 22:00 No, there's a lot of talk about washing your hands, 22:03 you know, after you touch anything, 22:05 but what about sanitizing products 22:09 that you buy at the supermarket, 22:11 your shoes, bottom of your shoes, 22:14 when you go into the house, the doorknobs. 22:17 Certainly things that you touch regularly 22:21 should be cleaned. 22:22 This virus can stay for several days on a hard, 22:25 you know, smooth surface. 22:27 And so if someone else coughed on something and, 22:31 you know, and they've got it on their hands 22:33 or it's on some product that you pick up or whatever, 22:37 and then you touch it, 22:38 and now you've got it on your hands 22:40 and you rub your nose or your eyes, 22:41 you haven't washed your hands over and over and over. 22:44 Like we're saying now, we are, you know, putting yourself up, 22:48 you're getting infected, and it only takes, 22:50 you know, a few viruses to get in there 22:52 and get a few cells 22:54 and then they make thousands of more 22:55 which spread to the cells by them 22:57 and a few more doubling times, 22:58 now you've got a cough and a runny nose 23:00 and it can keep going. 23:02 So sanitizing things in your household, 23:07 particularly things you're bringing 23:08 into your household, 23:10 whether you're going to sanitize 23:12 the soles of your shoes and your floors 23:14 that may be going to step over in the hospitals, 23:19 we are continually going around and mopping 23:22 and cleaning the floors with disinfect. 23:24 And so it's certainly appropriate 23:27 to mop your floors, 23:28 and you know, keep things cleaned, 23:30 you know, use disinfectants in your, 23:33 you know, cleaning solutions and stuff. 23:35 What about the difference 23:38 are the effectiveness of soap and water 23:40 versus the hand sanitizers that say 99.99% effective? 23:47 Yeah. 23:48 The bottom line is 23:50 soap and water like this under running water 23:53 or some soap, those viruses are gone, 23:55 you've washed them all away, they say 20 seconds, 23:58 good way to remember that 24:00 if you watch the front of your hands, 24:01 and then you watch the back of your hands, 24:02 and then you watch between your fingers, 24:04 you get that good rinse that off... 24:06 And by the time you've gone through that ritual, 24:08 you've got your 20 seconds. 24:10 Your hands are clean. 24:12 The hand sanitizers, everybody says, 24:14 well, that's second best, 24:16 you know, you're not by a sink or you're not... 24:17 Well, hand sanitizers. 24:19 You know, 70% alcohol 24:21 is usually enough to kill the virus. 24:24 You want to make sure you've got it on everywhere 24:26 and got it on the virus, 24:27 not just a little bit in the palm, 24:28 you know, the hand, 24:30 but yeah, hand sanitizers are good, 24:33 but the waters and soaps are best. 24:35 Excellent. 24:36 I know we're going to run out of time 24:38 before our questions were exhausted. 24:40 But you perhaps have heard 24:41 that one of our conference presidents 24:43 in New York City has been diagnosed positive. 24:45 I haven't heard that. No. 24:47 That came out just this weekend. 24:49 And one of the things that were discussing 24:50 was the length of time 24:52 from the time he got his test till he got his results, 24:57 there was evidently a protracted period of time. 25:00 I'm told that there are some new, faster tests 25:03 and ways of getting the results back fast. 25:05 Right. 25:07 And even the old test, the ones we've been using, 25:10 don't actually take many days, 25:13 they actually take several hours to run. 25:16 The problem is we only had a few machines, 25:18 a little bit of reagent. 25:19 And even when you get, 25:21 then it's got to be sent to some lab. 25:23 And then it's in their to-do list 25:25 and eventually, they're going to get to it 25:26 as soon as they can. 25:28 And so we've had... 25:29 I had a patient's, a positive test, 25:32 and it came back a week later. 25:33 Well, during that week, he's been here and there 25:35 and everywhere, went to another hospital, 25:38 got diagnosed and released. 25:39 And still, now we got a test. 25:41 But now we go back and tell him, 25:42 "No, you're not, maybe if you do have it, 25:44 and now you got to quit, you know." 25:45 So it creates a lot of problems this delay in diagnosis 25:49 or just over the last week, 25:50 they have really increased the availability. 25:54 Many of these labs now have 25:56 multiple modules on the machine. 25:58 They're running many more tests per day. 26:00 And there are many more labs coming online now 26:03 that are doing that, they're huge. 26:05 The UC system here in California, 26:08 they've got big laboratories there 26:10 that can rent 10,000 at a time a day, 26:13 you know, type of thing is really vamping that up. 26:16 And there are some instant tests available, 26:19 but you're going to find when you go to get one 26:21 may not be your doctor happens 26:23 to have an instant test in his office, 26:25 but they are rolling those out, 26:26 they're making them by the millions, 26:28 they are going out. 26:30 And over the next week or so, 26:32 we're going to start seeing 26:33 more of those becoming available 26:36 where they can run a test in a few minutes. 26:39 There's two different kinds of tests out there. 26:41 One is the test 26:44 that actually tests for the virus. 26:46 And that's the one that we've been using 26:48 with the various swabs and doing that. 26:50 But there is another one you can do on some blood, 26:53 just a serum sample of blood, 26:55 and you look for the antibodies. 26:57 This is going to be real important 26:58 as we move ahead 27:00 because for all of you, 27:02 people that weren't that symptomatic, 27:04 this is going to show that you were infected 27:07 and that you are indeed immune, 27:09 and so that you're safe to go back to work, 27:12 you no need to be afraid of getting it now, 27:15 you've already got the vaccine and the sense 27:17 you've got the real thing 27:18 and you're now immune to and you're protected from it. 27:21 And so that's our hope to see that roll out in that area, 27:25 you know, and really help us in the tail end of it. 27:30 Pastor Bohr, you got about 30 seconds 27:31 to take us to the Word and leave us on a positive. 27:33 Thirty seconds, the next time 27:35 we want to talk about treatment... 27:37 Okay. 27:38 The effectiveness of treatments, 27:40 one of those is lifestyle. 27:42 And so being that we have just a very short few seconds, 27:45 I want to read one verse in the Bible. 27:48 1 Corinthians 10:31, 27:50 which I'm sure that you know very well. 27:53 It says, "Therefore whether you eat 27:55 or drink or whatever you do, 27:58 do all to the glory of God." 28:02 Amen. 28:03 Join us again soon for Coronavirus Report. |
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