For starters, don't panic: 'The vast majority of cases are going to be mild, and people are going to recover just like they do from a cold or flu-like illness.'
This advice has been echoed by local public health districts. In Snohomish County, Washington, where there are at least four confirmed cases of the coronavirus, officials urged the public to call their health care provider if they think they have been exposed or feel ill with"only mild cold symptoms." They advised against going to an urgent care clinic or a hospital to get tested in those situations.
"If you have any anxiety or reason to believe you have coronavirus infection, or heck, even if you have influenza, call your health care provider, because you don't want to just show up in the waiting room and give it to everybody else," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious diseases specialist at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
"Otherwise, I would treat it symptomatically. That might include taking medicine to reduce fever, or cold and flu medicines to reduce symptoms," he said.As with any illness, it's best to keep your germs to yourself."Don't go to work and spread it to your co-workers. Don't go to the gym. Hunker down," Schaffner said.
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