Do you know how to wash your hands properly?
Here are two videos to teach you how.
WHO: How to handwash? From World Health Organization (WHO) with voice narration. Turn on CC for closed captions.
Handwashing WHO steps From John Hopkins Medicine. No voice narration. Has description of steps and summary chart.
You do the same steps if you are using alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
Which is better: Soap or hand sanitizer? (by Alex Rosenthal & Pall Thordarson TEd-Ed)
Why Social Distancing?
Here’s a video to explain how social distancing can help save lives, protects the most vulnerable in our society. It helps to “flatten the curve” and prevents an exponential increase of infected individuals in the population.
“Why fighting the coronavirus depends on you” (by Vox on YouTube March 16,2020)
and for those that like to read more and watch computer simulations, here’s an article below.
Why coronavirus spreads exponentially and how to “flatten the curve”
What are Viruses? How do viruses infect and make more viruses?
Viruses (by the Amoeba Sisters)
What is a coronavirus? (by Elizabeth Cox / TED-Ed May 2020)
Viruses by Johnkyrk.com step by step animation (requires Adobe flash player)
Links Related to Covid-19
COVID-19 Animation: What Happens If You Get Coronavirus? (YouTube Video by Nucleus Medical Media)
What Actually Happens If You Get Coronavirus? (by AsapSCIENCE Youtube channel)
Covid-19 BC CDC – (BC Centre for Disease Control)
The Evolution of Viruses and Diversity of Viruses
Where Do New Viruses Come From? (by Stated Clearly)
The Immune System: How the body fights back infections
The Immune System (by the Amoeba Sisters)
Medical Products: Vaccines & Antiobiotics & Testing
How Do Vaccines Work? (by Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut / TED-Ed
Antibiotics, Antivirals, and Vaccines (by the Amoeba Sisters)
How we conquered the deadlyl smallpox virus (by Simona Dompi / Ted-Ed)
How do you know if you have a virus? (by Cella Wright / Ted-
Ed)
Past Pandemics and Diseases to compare to Covid-19 (Coronavirus)
When is a pandemic over? (by Alex Rosenthal / TED-Ed )
How Pandemics Spread (by Mark Honigsbaum / TED-Ed 2012)
Pandemics worse than the Coronavirus (by The Infographics Show)
6 Diseases that have shaped human history (by YouTube SciShow)
Spanish Flu: A warning from history (Cambridge University 1918 marked 100 years after the Spanish Flu pandemic) outbreak
1918 Spanish Flu Historical Documentary (by Chromosome8; This is 40 mins long! so only watch it if your really interested)
Economic Lessons from Past Pandemics (Origin of Everything; may have advertisements)