WEBVTT - How the Flu Works 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:03.040 Hey, Portland and Seattle, we are coming to see you 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.320 live next January. Yep. On January we're gonna be in 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:11.760 beautiful Seattle, Washington at the More Theater. And then on 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:15.080 January six, the next night, we're gonna be at Revolution 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.279 Hall in Portland. And we are super psyched for these, right, Chuck, 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:20.520 that's right. These tickets are going fast, so for all 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.360 the deeds. Go to our live home on the web 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.200 s y s K live dot com. Welcome to Stuff 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:36.200 you Should Know from how Stuff Works dot com. Hey, 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.839 and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.360 w Chuck Bryant, There's Jerry. This is Stuff you Should 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:47.760 Know about the flu, which I have. Do you know 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.400 the flu? Do you? I don't know, man, I can't. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.400 I can't. I've been on the planet for forty one years. Okay, 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:55.880 I still can't really tell the difference between a flu 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.160 and a cold. I think the difference that I can tell. 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.640 And I don't get the flu much. You know, always 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.319 get the stomach bug, which, as it turns out, as 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:08.120 not a flu. I just learned. But um, I don't 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.119 get the flu flu much. But I can always tell 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.840 though when I'm super achy, Like the flu just makes 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:18.039 me feel like dog do do? Right, where's the cold? 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.080 Is just a big inconvenience? Yeah, I've had no, I've 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.800 definitely had like lots of aches and um, I woke 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.000 up like shivering one night. I don't know you had 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.959 a fever for sure, I guess so. Um, I guess 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:30.959 it must have just been one night in the middle 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.160 of the night. So that's that's the flu, right, probably, 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:37.160 So I guess I do have the flu. No, no joke, everybody. Well, 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:41.119 I'm erecting the clear glass in between us. Yeah. I 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.560 think that I've had it long enough now based on 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.120 the research from this article that I'm not contagious, or 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.520 else I would have called this off. So did you 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:55.000 get it in New York? I wonder, I think so? Yeah? Right, yeah, 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.760 which I was like, I was just walking walking around 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:01.200 like with my hands um in side of a couple 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:05.080 of like plastic Dwayne Read bags and it still didn't work. Well, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.400 that was your problem probably right there, Read because I 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:12.560 didn't take them off when I ate gross. Yeah. So, yes, 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.360 we were in New York for some Bellhouse shows, right, 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:19.960 those went pretty well? Yeah, I thought they were great. Alright, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:24.359 so the flute, we won't reminisce about past victories. We'll 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.680 just talk about the flu instead. Yeah, how about a 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:31.240 stat right off the get go here? Um, the flu 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.200 and also, sorry everybody for the sniffling that's going to 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.480 inevitably happen. I'm trying hard not to do it your 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:42.360 method podcaster, Uh, which is also what I said in 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:46.440 my very first episode. That's right, remember that it's not 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:51.120 any funnier now. So the CDC right here in Atlanta 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.799 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, not the c d 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:59.160 c P. No, they just stuck with the original. Um 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:05.680 they reckon that. About five to between five of United 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:11.480 States people's get the flu each year, compared to about 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:18.680 ten in dirty cold Canada, right, I know. And normally 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:23.839 when you get the flu, um, it's just you're laid 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.000 up for a couple of days. Right, Yeah, you like 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.200 you said, you feel like dog do or something like that. Um, 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.120 that's the seasonal flu. But even with the seasonal flu, 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.000 which usually here in the United States are in North America, 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:40.200 runs from what like October to March, yeah roughly. Uh. 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.680 And then I didn't really think about this before, but 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.200 in the southern hemisphere it runs the opposite and actually 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:50.280 peaks in August. Yeah. Um, most of the time it's 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:56.040 just an inconvenience for you, but it actually kills people sometimes. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.600 They can be dangerous, for sure. So in two thousand 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.240 eleven and twelve, that was a pretty low year, and 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.680 for deaths from the flu in the US, there were 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:09.400 twelve thousand people who died from the flu or complications 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.600 from the flu. Two thousand and twelve thirteen flu season, 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:17.120 fifty six thousand people died that year, and I think 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.240 the average is something around thirty six thousand people in 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.760 the US die from the flu every year. Yeah, and 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.960 apparently the World Health Organization says around the world as 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.440 many as a quarter of a million people to a 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.600 half a million people can die every year from the flu. Right, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.719 there's a lot of a lot of folks, it is. So, 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:36.880 I mean, in the idea of dying from the flu, 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.039 that's that's awful because I mean, if you feel bad 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.400 enough as it is from a flu that you recover 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.480 from in a few days, imagine dying from that. That 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.960 would just be a terrible way to die. Um, And 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:53.440 the whole thing, chuck comes down to this little tiny virus, 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.440 the influence of virus, and there's different types and influence. 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.839 I found um is actually really a shout out to 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:06.039 the Italian name for it. Originally Did you know this? Uh? 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.760 Did not, So I'm gonna say it normally, but then 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:10.800 you have to say it in your famous Italian excit 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:17.760 Uh influenza defredo. Are you talking about the influenza de Yeah, 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.640 which means influence of the cold, all right, A lot 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.200 of for for many many, many many years, because the 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.760 flu um is most predominant in the colder months. Um, 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.120 everybody just assumed that it was the actual cold that 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.320 was getting you sick. Um. That turns out not to 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.919 be true. It's it's an actual it's a virus that 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:43.479 does seem to favor the cold, drier conditions of the 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.800 winter months. Um. But this little tiny virus gets into 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.400 your body and it starts this chain reaction that is 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.919 just fascinating. Yeah. So it is a respiratory illness. So, 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.440 like I said before, when you hear people say the 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.599 stomach flu which I've said a lot in my life 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:02.880 because I get it once a year with the poopy 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:07.400 butt and the vomitist mouth. In this the ill belly 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:09.920 at the same time, though I can't. I think I've 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.280 asked you this before, but it literally ever happened at 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.320 the same time. I think once in my life. Man, 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.960 that's rough. I was on the john with a bucket. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.200 It's so rough. Uh, well, the worst time I ever 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.039 had it. And I may have told the story before. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.320 I was sick at a friend's house, which is the 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.000 worst as when I was not living in Atlanta, but 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:33.000 I was in Atlanta, and I was like, I gotta, 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.440 I just gotta get to my mom's house. Yeah, And 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.680 I was like, I just was much more comfortably being 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.960 sick there and he was working. It was just one 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.400 of those things. And so I got in my brother's 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.520 car that I was borrowing what I was in town. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:47.520 I don't like where this story is going. And I 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:52.039 drove no Lie, probably about a hundred miles an hour 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:57.880 to Snellville from Atlanta, thinking and I pooped in my 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:02.200 pants in the car, and I remember thinking, if a 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.760 cop pulls me over, he would have to be a 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.560 cold heartless individual to give me a ticket, because I 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.320 would just say, sir, don't take me to prison, take 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.280 me to a hospital because I'm dying. Yeah. So I 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.040 drove a hundred miles an hour. It's kind of fun. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:17.920 So you made at home, you showed up with poopy 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.040 pants and your mom took care of you, showed up 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:26.760 to to Diane's house, and uh, I lived. But anyway, Uh, 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.040 that was a long way of setting up this, which 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:30.960 is that is actually not a flu. The stomach flu 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:36.240 is not because the flu is a respiratory illness, right, 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.880 and it's not something that happens in your stomach or 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.080 in your in your butt. Right. And let's let's talk 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.160 first before we talk about the actual effect of the flu. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.240 Let's talk about the virus a little bit. I was thinking. Okay, 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:52.400 So back in one there was this Iowa farm physician, 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:56.160 which is to say he was a human physician of humans, 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.240 but he probably lived on a farm because it was 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:02.640 Iowa one. His name was Richard Chope, and he was 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:06.000 trying to figure out what this bug that was getting 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:11.040 people was UM. And he investigated with pigs first, because 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.560 there are plenty of other animals that can come down 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.320 with the flu, not just humans, right, UM. And he 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.400 finally isolated isolated a flu virus in swine and it 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.400 led to this discovery of UM. The isolation of the 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.560 flu virus in humans too. So right after that they 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.480 started classifying the flu by strains. You got A, B, 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.640 and C. Right, So A is the most common and 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.520 most severe, that's the bad news. Yeah, B is a 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.240 little milder, a little less prevalent. And then we go 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.240 all the way down to sea, which is I get 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.480 the feeling seed doesn't happen a lot, and it definitely 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.160 isn't the one that you're gonna have, like a a 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.559 big epidemic of the flu from a sea. Yeah. I 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:58.079 couldn't find much unsee influenza either or see Yeah, it 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.920 will make a comeback one day, and it'll it'll shock 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.600 the heck out of all of us. Right, So um, 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:08.760 Type A infects all sorts of different species, right, humans, 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:13.840 birds of all kinds, pigs, bats, horses, even Yeah, I 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.960 mean remember the Avian flu that was that scared the world, 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:22.439 And that was A right, that was a strain. B 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:28.319 strain is almost exclusively infective of humans. Apparently the only 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:32.160 other species we've ever found a type be influenza virus 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.840 in his seals. God knows where they got it from, 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.560 or if we got it from seals, who knows. Maybe 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.920 up north. I don't know, and then that CE one. 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:45.800 It just infects humans and pigs. So you've got the 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.480 three types. And then one other thing about them, um, 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.960 about the classification of of flu strains is that there 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.679 are also subtypes, right, And so you mentioned like avian flu, 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.800 and the one that scared everybody was I think H 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.440 five N one, Yeah, that was it. I remember. So 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:08.000 that H and the N are the they refer to 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.280 the two kinds of the two main proteins that you 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:15.800 find on the outside of a flu virus. Um, uh, 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:24.120 he me gluten in and neurominias, Okay, And so depending 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.800 on those types of H protein or M protein. Uh, 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.959 that's that's how they sub type flu stream. Yeah. So 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.880 I mean that's a good little facto. I don't think 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.719 anyone really understands what those letters mean. That's what they mean, 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.520 you know. Yeah, But as far as you're concerned, just 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.160 pay attention to the news, and when they talk about 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.280 the scary ones, they'll mention those letters and numbers, and 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.559 then you can impress your friends. Yeah, you can be like, oh, 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.640 well they're talking about hema glutenin and neurominidase, and they'll 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:56.800 say shut up, nerd. I hope you get sick. So 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.160 as far as the standard flu that we're talking about here, 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.400 the virus, it gets into your body and it kind 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.640 of makes a bee line to your respiratory tract, uh, 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.440 and it binds with your cells. It's viruses. Did we 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.360 do one a general on viruses? The one I think 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.079 we really went in depth on was HIV where we 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.760 talked about how virus enters the body takes over. It's 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:22.160 just vicious, it is, but it's also it's kind of 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.360 like admirable in a really like deadly efficient way, you know. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.880 So they bind to the surface of your of the 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.960 cells and that respiratory tract and then they say, hey, 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.920 I'd like you to meet my little friend r n A. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:39.120 Why don't Why don't I inject my genetic information into 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.080 your nucleus and see how you like it? Right? And 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.079 when it does that, the uh, the cell has been 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:50.320 officially hijacked, and the virus uses the cell's own um 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:57.360 RNA transcription process two create the proteins that are needed 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.559 to make new versions of the virus. So thevirus is 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.559 using this host cell in your respiratory tract to um 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.160 make copies of itself and suddenly before the cell knows 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.720 what's going on, It's made millions of copies of these viruses, right, 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.800 and apparently when you talk about it step by step, 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:21.040 it seems like this takes a little while, no in seconds. 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:25.880 Seconds after that, the virus has entered your respiratory cell. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:30.040 Millions of copies of it have been made. Yeah, like that, 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.640 this is happening so fast it moves in there, it says, 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.719 I'm in charge now, so out of the way. Yeah, 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.720 completely the other way. I'm running the show here. Uh, 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.400 we're copying each other and we're gonna move out to 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.840 the cell membrane because this cell is gonna die very quickly, 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.200 and then that's just gonna poof me out into the 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:52.120 body further to infect other cells. And it's it's scary 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.600 how quickly this happens. Right, So, if you think about it, 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:59.040 if that first cell produces millions of viruses, viral copies, 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.080 and then there at least um from the cell out 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.000 into the rest of the other respiratory cells, and each 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.079 of those infects another cell, and then those cells all 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:12.440 make millions. You see how quickly these um these virus 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:17.160 is reproducing your body. And once that starts to happen. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.720 You are infectious. I think once that first cell ruptures, 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.280 you become infectious. Um. But this can be like a 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.200 day before symptoms, right, So this is this is something 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.840 people are always saying, like, oh, I'm not infectious anymore, 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.360 Like me, I said it earlier too. Right now, But 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:36.880 supposedly the day before you you even know you're sick, 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.400 the day before the first symptoms start, before you start 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.160 like sniffling a little bit or whatever, you're infectious, buddy, 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.080 And you're infectious up to seven days after that day 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.240 you first start showing symptoms with the flu. And if 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.720 you're a kid, you can be infectious even longer because 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:57.520 if kids are anything, they're walking germ factories. They're disgusting monsters. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:01.920 It's hilarious. Um, it's true. Man. Like my kid didn't 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.360 get sick at all for the first eighteen months of 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.640 her life, and I thought, I've got a wonder baby. Yeah, really, 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:10.640 I don't know what's going on. We put her in 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.200 daycare a couple of days a week, and she was 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.120 sick NonStop for the next six months. Man. That is rough. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.080 It is rough. And then they get the family sick 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:19.920 and we'll talk a little bit about that and how 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:24.240 that happens. But all this is to say, during flu season, 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.880 especially if you work in like an office where you know, 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.040 when you hear like the flu is going around or whatever, 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.200 or in anywhere you work, or in school, if you 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.440 hear about the flu going around, even if you don't 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.920 feel sick or your cube mate doesn't feel or look sick, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.080 just start washing your hands a lot. Oh yeah, that's 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.400 like they they say, that's the best way to prevent 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.920 getting the flu or spreading the flu is washing your 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.560 hands a lot. And it's it's so simple that you 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.720 almost might discount it, but it's actually true, Like that's 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:56.480 the best way to do it. You can wash the 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.320 flu virus off of your hands with some soap that 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.000 will bind. Do it and the water will wash it 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.120 right off. Wash that flu right out of your hair. Yeah, 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:10.160 and if you have the flu, stay home. Yeah, everybody 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.760 but me stay home. Well, we we're up against it week. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:17.560 We had to record today. And also wash your hands 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.800 just constantly, Like if I'm about to touch anything, I'll 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.080 wash my hands first. If I'm gonna go somewhere outside 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.600 of the hot zone, which is whatever room I'm sequestered in, 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:31.040 you know, I will wash my hands. You know I 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:32.880 appreciate that. I mean, trust me. We're in this tiny 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.040 studio now, the three of us. I know, I'm trying 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.520 not to breathe. Uh. You know you've done all this 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.000 one one breath. It's impressive. I know. Um, Well, quickly 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.440 before we take a break so you can breathe again. Uh, 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.760 We're gonna talk about symptoms afterward. Before you get these 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.440 symptoms though, what's happening is your respiratory system is gonna 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.840 become inflamed, and this inflammation might stick around for a 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:01.040 few weeks, but from there it moves into your blood stream, 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:02.960 and then that's when you're going to get these symptoms 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.080 once it sort of moves into the blood stream. And 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:33.800 we're gonna talk about the symptoms as promised, right after this. Alright, Chuck, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:38.840 let's breath, Yeah a little bit, let's talk symptoms. Okay, 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.160 you know what I need? I need one of those 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.680 like um reads that bugs Bunny used to like hide 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.800 in the water when aud was hunting him. I could 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.520 just like get a long one and maybe a crazy 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.040 straw would be even better, and just like pipe it 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.320 out to the air duct right there. That's a great idea. 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:00.560 We'll get everybody else sick except you into here. So, um, 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.920 the symptoms sound a lot like a cold because the 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.480 symptoms are kind of the same. A cold is is 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.000 usually not as fraught with potential complications and maybe a 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.360 little less severe. But they're pretty close, which is why 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.160 you couldn't tell earlier if you had a colder feet 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.959 or flu, right, you know the but that fever, um, 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.480 that's the big one. Apparently it's a big distinction between 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.560 the Yeah. I think that's kind of the way I 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.679 just distinguish it, right, Yeah, And the cold colds are 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.480 also caused by viruses are caused by coronaviruses, which can 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.280 There are types of coronaviruses that are really bad that 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.920 cause like mirs and stars. Um. But for the most part, 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.040 when you catch a cold from a coronavirus, it's a 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.919 low level virus or it's a rhinovirus. Um. That's the 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.320 other one that caused that causes the common cold, right, 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.400 So it's just a different kind of virus producing similar 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:53.119 symptoms to a flu. Do you remember when Peter sars 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.679 Guard was on Saturday Night Live years ago? He was 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.800 you know, the actor he was on there during the 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.800 ours when there was a Star Scare in the United States, 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.800 and one of their skits was he had developed the 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:11.560 Stars Guard stars Guard just basically a surgical mask, but 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.840 it was just funny. They said Stars Card, Stars Card 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.880 like thirty times and I laughed every time. Um, it's 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.679 I think his younger brothers was Pennywise, the clown in 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.040 the movie right. Oh, I don't know. I'm pretty sure 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.720 that was a Star's card and he is amazing. Yeah 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:30.000 have you seen it? No? Oh, you gotta see it. 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:31.679 You're gonna love it. And now was he a stars 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.040 Guard or a Scars Guard? Oh? God, I didn't know 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.720 there were two different things. Well, they're the Scars Guards, 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:41.879 which is like Stelen scars Guard is the dad, and 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:46.760 then the Sun was the dude on uh, True Blood, 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:51.520 the Vampire Show, and then recently on that pretty Little Liars. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:56.399 I think one with Nicole Kidman, that's Alexander scars Guard. 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.040 I think that might be him. Is stars Guard the 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:05.600 one who's in Fargo Star No, who is that? Peter? Yeah, 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.280 that's another dude. What is up with all these guys? So? 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:10.920 Are you sure you're not just dropping the kof of 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:16.680 Peter's Scars Guard. All right, here's the deal. The guy 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:20.440 in Fargo, Man, this is such a bad sidetrack already, 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:24.360 it's pretty bad. The guy in Fargo was Peter Stormare. Okay, 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:28.040 so he's not even any equation then, no, but I 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:33.080 definitely know that there is Peter stars Guard because he 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.760 either was or is married to Maggie Gillen Hall. Oh yeah, 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.159 I guess I knew that Peter stars Guard. Okay, and 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.440 then they're Stelen an Alexander Scars Guard. And I don't 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:47.679 know who the clown was. It's Bill scars Guard. And 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:51.640 is he related to the Scars Guards? I guess so yeah, 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.639 I believe he's the youngest of them. Okay, Oh, I'm sorry, 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.359 I was wrong. It was Tim Curry I was talking about. No, 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.960 actually we never looked stuff up. But I didn't look 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.600 that up because the headline here says Alexander Scars Guards 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:11.400 reaction to his brother Bills clown costume. Yeah, he's it's 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.959 his acting. It goes way beyond the costume. They did 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:17.760 get with the costume, but it was oh yeah, it was. 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.040 It was good. I know there were so many people 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.000 screaming at their phones, but I think we finally got 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.520 it right. Yeah, sorry about that everybody. I also want 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:29.000 to apologize for any medical students who are being forced 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.720 to listen to this as part of their class. Hopefully 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.879 your instructor fast forwarded through that part all right. In fact, 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:38.960 this all got started with stars Guard Stars Guards. Oh yeah, 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.639 that's right, because that's from the coronavirus. This is the 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:45.640 influenza virus we're talking about that creates this inflammation which 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:49.400 is your immune response right in your lungs. That's correct. 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:53.200 And uh, the symptoms like a cold or coughing, sneezing, 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:55.320 that the fever which is different, like we said with 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:58.560 the flu, achy body which usually comes with that fever, 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:02.120 and then's running nose and congestion that you can hear, 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:06.680 and your overall lethargy. Yeah, I am a little under 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:10.000 the weather, I guess is a good way to put in. UM. 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:13.359 So those are just standard flu symptoms. You can have 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:18.480 secondary symptoms from complications of the flu, right. Um. One 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.320 thing that that has long gone hand in hand with 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:25.880 the flu as far as like death from flu complications 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:30.280 goes as bacterial pneumonia and UM. For a very long time, 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:34.080 science wasn't quite sure why that was why you were 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:38.200 just so susceptible to bacterial infections when you were battling 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:41.359 the flu, and they figured it out. It's actually your 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:45.679 body's immune response that is responsible for it. Right. So 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:48.119 when you have the flu and your body starts to 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:51.480 battle it off and you get a fever um and 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:55.520 and your lung to become inflamed, that's that's your immune 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:59.760 your immune system's response to the flu virus. But when 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.000 your body says, okay, calm down, everybody, let's bring the 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:07.040 temperature back down um, and your body represses its own 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:11.480 immune response, it opens the door for bacteria that normally 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:14.199 it would be able to fight off, to take advantage 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:17.760 of this kind of naturally weakened state that your immune 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:21.080 systems in, and you can You're much more susceptible that 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:24.879 infections from bacteria, and that's where pneumonia comes from. You 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:28.719 can get viral pneumonia, but you you usually get bacterial pneumonia. 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:32.000 And that's the stuff that people can die from because 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:35.880 that bacteria infects your air sex and your lungs, which 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:39.640 feel a fluid and puss and blood, and you die 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:43.840 from choking on bloody froth that fills up your airway. Yeah, 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:47.480 it's not. It's a bad jam man. Uh. Severe dehydration 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:50.600 is another secondary symptom of the flu. That's why, of 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:53.200 course you always wanted to drink plenty of water when 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:55.080 you have a cold or flu. I look that one 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:57.520 up to chuck because if you think about it, why 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:00.960 why would you be dehydrated from the flu. It's from 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:05.960 sweating your nose running um, it's just leaking fluids. You 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:08.959 you are, and like they start to add up and 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:11.520 all of a sudden you're dehydrated before you even knew it. 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:15.200 That's right. Uh. Ear infections, especially if you're a kid, 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:19.360 um sinus issues. Emily always gets bad sinus problems along 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:21.239 with this stuff. I know she was starting to get 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:24.000 a little Sniffley is she's sick? She did get sick, 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:27.840 that poor lady. Yeah, New York man. Yeah, it killed everyone. 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:32.480 I love um. And then if you like in Emily's case, 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:35.679 she's slightly asthmatic. But if you are asthmatic, you have 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:41.199