CMAAO
IMA HCFI CORONA MYTH BUSTER 25
Dr K K Aggarwal
President CMAAO, HCFI and Past National President
CMAAO
Media reports claim
40 crore Indians will contract coronavirus, falsely attribute it to John
Hopkins university
COVID
19 recovered patient can donate blood
No. There are no guidelines available. Some centers
say three months. But if he or she wants to donate plasma for serious COVID
infected cases can do right away.
Avoid
blood donation in COVID 19 situation
No. Most blood banks have introduced a 28-day donation postponement for
donors returning from any overseas country following updated public health
advice from government that anyone who returns from overseas is considered to
have returned from a high or moderate risk country and should practice social
distancing outside of work.
A 28-day postponement is in place for any donors who have been in
contact with a confirmed case of coronavirus. This means that if you have been
in contact with someone who has had coronavirus and was infectious at the time
then you’ll be unable to donate for 28 days.
If you have had coronavirus yourself you will not be able to donate for
three months after your recovery.
In the past, people with a mild runny nose with no fever have been
allowed to donate plasma. Blood banks follow this that anyone with minor cold-like symptoms will be
deferred until they are recovered.
Coronavirus can transmit by Blood Donation
No. Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease
(COVID-19) in the United States earlier this year, the AABB Interorganizational
Task Force on Domestic Disasters and Acts of Terrorism, in coordination with
the country’s blood collection establishments, has been monitoring the evolving
public health situation and preparing for potential further spread
According to the US FDA there have been no reported
or suspected cases of transfusion-transmitted COVID-19. No cases of
transfusion-transmission were ever reported for the other two coronaviruses
that emerged during the past two decades (SARS and MERS-CoV).
Individuals are not at risk of contracting COVID-19
through the blood donation process or via a blood transfusion, since
respiratory viruses are generally not known to be transmitted by donation or
transfusion.
Air
ambulances are not safe
Just because Philippines plane
crashed does not mean air ambulances are not safe. : A plane used as an
air ambulance to fight the coronavirus outbreak burst into flames
as it took off from Manila’s airport for Japan on Sunday
night, killing all eight people aboard, including medical workers.
R0
estimate higher in healthcare or long-term care facilities?
There is no
evidence as yet
Health-care
workers can be prevented
Healthcare worker illnesses (over 1,000 ) demonstrates
human-to human transmission despite isolation, PPE, and infection control. [(U)
Schnirring, L., New coronavirus infects health workers, spreads to Korea.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/01/newcoronavirus-infects-health-workers-spreads-korea.
There
is no difference between porous and non-porous material as far as covid 19
infection is concerned
Porous hospital materials, including paper and cotton
cloth, maintain infectious SARS-CoV for a shorter time than non-porous
material. [(U) Lai, M. Y.; Cheng, P. K.; Lim, W. W., Survival of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2005, 41 (7),
e67-e71.]
The
reduction in CFR through time is an indication of better treatment, less
overcrowding, or both
We have no answer as on today
Tests
can not be false positive or negative
False positive/negative rates for tests are not known.
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