said, \u201cI left a very good position at Yale to come here just to be mentored by him.\u201d She spoke of how caring he is, setting aside 10 minutes at the end of each mentor session to discuss families, house remodeling, and other things outside of work.<\/span><\/p>\nHe is nationally known and has been quoted by National Public Radio, The New York Times and The Washington Post.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSo what does the germ doctor advise about the coronavirus?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHe says the prevention measures you\u2019ve heard about are still a good recipe: wearing face masks, practicing social distancing, and frequent hand washing. \u201cI think it’s safe to say that all those together are certainly going to be much more effective than one of them individually,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAlong with that trifecta of things to protect yourself, Anderson also has a simple mindset for society\u2019s overall approach for the virus: \u201cIt is all for one and one for all,\u201d he said. \u201cYou’re not just wearing a mask for yourself. You’re wearing a mask for others in your community as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nHe says you\u2019re more likely to get the virus from another person than from picking it up from a surface. \u201cIt’s not a 50 one way and 50 the other. It’s probably much more weighted towards person-to-person.\u201d So should we still be wiping everything down? He says that\u2019s a good precaution, but in-person contact is the most likely way to get the virus.<\/span><\/p>\nAs a consultant for the NFL, he feels the league has a good foundation for preventing the spread of infection. But the league needs to continue to build on that approach in this new age of the coronavirus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHe says professional sports teams need to be asking themselves the same question as other businesses: \u201cHow can you be innovative about keeping people apart? How can you make sure that people wash their hands routinely or make it easy to do what’s right? And how can you get them to wear a mask? All of those same interventions are going to be useful in athletic training facilities as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAs lockdown regulations are loosened, it can be difficult to decide which situations are safe and which are not. Although Anderson can\u2019t tell you which situations are worth the risk, he says, \u201cIn the end all of this is about risk-benefit. There is no such thing as a zero risk scenario in our society right now until there is an effective vaccine. . .It is a personal decision about what is considered to be an acceptable risk or the potential benefit that might be reaped.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the NFL needed help to stop the spread of the MRSA bacteria in 2013, the league called Dr. Deverick Anderson, a Duke infectious disease…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-3171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-durham","tag-coronavirus","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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