ROJOSON-PEP-TALK: Safety Program Against COVID19 (May 15, 2021) - Launching of PEP TALK - 1st Lecture

1. Patient Empowerment (WHO):
• It is a process through which people gain greater control
over decisions and actions affecting their health.
• It is a process in which patients understand their role, are
given the knowledge and skills by their health-care
provider to perform a task in an environment that
recognizes community and cultural differences and
encourages patient participation.

2. Benefits of Patient Empowerment
• Improvement in quality in health care
administered by physicians and health care
professionals because of patient-centered care.
• Improvement in health outcomes because of
patient participation.

4. COVID19 pandemic - March 11, 2020 (WHO)
Philippines
Worldwide
May 7, 2021
Philippines
 Cases – more than one million
 Deaths – more than 18,000

5. COVID19 is a
PREVENTABLE
infectious disease.
It is NOT worth DYING
from it!

6. All of us must know how to avoid
getting infected with COVID19 at
all cost as once you get infected,
you carry a risk of dying from it.
Nobody can predict with 100%
certainty whether you will recover
from the COVID19 infection or not
once you get it.

7. Remember COVID19 is ten times
deadlier than influenza and the
course is unpredictable and
treacherous, especially for the older
people and those with concomitant
chronic medical diseases like
diabetes, heart disease, hypertension,
asthma and other respiratory
diseases.

8. To have a safety promotion program
against COVID19,
• know first what COVID19 is
• how it spreads or gets to you
• what are the symptoms for you to
recognize it
• what are the ways to avoid getting
infected with it

9. COVID19
stands for Corona (CO) virus (VI)
disease (D) discovered in 2019
(19).
COVID19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2
virus, a respiratory virus.

10. COVID19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2
virus, a respiratory virus.
As such, spread is from person to
person mainly through the
respiratory route after an infected
person coughs, sneezes, sings,
talks or breathes.

11. Persons infected with SARS-CoV-2
may be symptomatic or
asymptomatic.
Asymptomatic persons can also
transmit the virus to other
persons.

12. There is a range of symptoms for
COVID19
that is hard to differentiate from
Influenza and other respiratory
tract infections.

13. The range of more common
symptoms of COVID19, appearing
singly or in multiple combination,
consists of the following:
• Fever
• Dry cough
• Tiredness
• Sore throat
• Cold
• Headache
• Body pain
• Loss of smell
• Loss of taste
• Diarrhea
• Nausea and vomiting
• Skin rashes
• Red eyes
• Difficulty of breathing

14. How not to get
infected with
COVID19?

15. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
The MOST EFFECTIVE preventive
measure is
TO AVOID EXPOSURE TO THE
VIRUS and
TO STAY AWAY FROM THE VIRUS.

16. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
• Avoid exposure to people with
possible, suspected, and confirmed
COVID19.
• Avoid exposure to plenty of people
with possible COVID19.
• Avoid exposure in a community with
COVID19 outbreak.

17. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
At this time of COVID19
pandemic, consider all people to
have possible COVID19 even if
they don’t manifest symptoms of
COVID19 and even if they have a
negative COVID19 test.

18. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
Consider all people to have possible
COVID19 -
DO NOT GO NEAR THEM.
STAY AWAY FROM THEM.
STAY AWAY FROM THE VIRUS THEY
MAY HARBOR.

19. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
If for one reason or another, face-to-face
interaction cannot be avoided with
INDIVIDUAL persons with possible
COVID19:

20. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
•Wear face mask and a face-shield when
interacting with every person with possible
COVID19.

21. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
•Practice physical distancing with at least 6
feet away to every person with possible
COVID19.

22. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
•Interact in open naturally aerated space,
not in an enclosed room, not in an air-
conditioned room.

23. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
•Interact in the shortest time possible, no
more than 15 minutes.

24. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
•Wear additional personal protective
equipment (PPE) if face-to-face
interactions of 15 minutes and physical
contact cannot be avoided.

25. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
•Practice hygienic measures of washing
hands after touching things handed from
another person and
taking a bath right after doing face-to- face
interactions with people with possible
COVID19.

26. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
Another safety measure –
AVOID COMPLETE FACE-TO-FACE
INTERACTION WITH PERSONS WITH
SUSPECTED AND CONFIRMED COVID19.
STAY AWAY FROM THEM, STAY AWAY
FROM THE VIRUS THEY MAY HARBOR.

27. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
Still another safety measure –
Prophylactic measures should be
added to the preventive measure of
AVOIDANCE OF EXPOSURE TO THE
VIRUS.

28. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
The MOST EFFECTIVE prophylactic measure
to prevent development of COVID19
disease in case exposure cannot be
avoided is
BUILDING AND MAINTAINING HOST
RESISTANCE AGAINST COVID19.

29. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
Currently, there are three (3) effective prophylactic
measures:
• Building and maintaining your innate
immune system (innate means inborn,
native, naturally existing immunity in
the body)

30. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
Currently, there are three (3) effective prophylactic
measures:
• Controlling all existing chronic medical
diseases such as diabetes, heart disease,
hypertension, bronchial asthma and
other respiratory diseases

31. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
Currently, there are three (3) effective prophylactic
measures:
• Building and maintaining your adaptive
immune system (adaptive means
specific or acquired immunity such as
formation of antibodies to fight against
a foreign body or antigen)

32. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
For building and maintaining your innate
immune system –
practice living a healthy lifestyle (adequate
rest; nutrition; hydration; exercise; stress
management; personal hygiene).

33. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
REST – have at least 8 hours of night sleep
with afternoon siesta as much as possible
NUTRITION – eat HEALTHY NATURAL DIET
– adequate but moderate in amount;
balanced; varied (there is no need for
additional vitamins and other
supplements)

34. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
HYDRATION – drink at least 8 glasses of
water per day
EXERCISE – exercise at least one hour a day
(distributed over the day – walking and
stretching and flexing exercises)

35. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
For controlling all existing chronic medical
diseases, follow the medical advice of your
current physicians and make sure they are
under full control.
Take note that persons or patients with
existing chronic medical diseases are at
higher risk for severe COVID19 diseases
and death.

36. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
For building and maintaining your adaptive
immune system – have an anti-COVID19
vaccination as soon as available to
generate antibodies against COVID19.

37. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
Take note that vaccination has been shown
to decrease the risk of severe COVID19 and
death at best.
Aside from this, vaccination has been
shown to decrease the number of COVID19
cases as actually experienced in Israel and
other countries.

38. How not to get infected with COVID-19?
An important advice:
Even with vaccination, one has to continue
practicing the physical preventive
measures and building and maintaining the
innate or natural immune system until
COVID19 is fully or totally controlled in the
community.

39. Take away from this ROJoson PEP Talk – Safety
Promotion Program Against COVID19 – Avoiding COVID19
Infection at All Cost:
• COVID19 is a preventable infectious
disease. Thus, it is not worth dying
from it.

40. Take away from this ROJoson PEP Talk – Safety
Promotion Program Against COVID19 – Avoiding COVID19
Infection at All Cost:
• Avoid COVID19 AT ALL COST as
there is always a risk for death
once infected.

41. Take away from this ROJoson PEP Talk – Safety
Promotion Program Against COVID19 – Avoiding COVID19
Infection at All Cost:
• The MOST EFFECTIVE preventive
measure is to AVOID EXPOSURE TO THE
VIRUS and to STAY AWAY FROM THE
VIRUS AT ALL COST.

42. Take away from this ROJoson PEP Talk – Safety
Promotion Program Against COVID19 – Avoiding COVID19
Infection at All Cost:
The MOST EFFECTIVE prophylactic measures to prevent
development of COVID19 disease in case exposure
cannot be avoided are:
• Building and maintaining your innate or natural
immune system.
• Controlling all existing chronic medical diseases.
• Building and maintaining your adaptive immune
system through anti-COVID19 vaccination.