COVID-19 : how to help the world to fight Coronavirus?

how to help healthcare workers to fight Coronavirus ?

- Stay home
- Give your masks
- Donate your blood and platelets
- Give them time
- Support research
- Encourage them ( the world) ( Socialmedia...)

Donate money, time, blood, masks: Sciences et Avenir summarizes what can be done to help caregivers fight the epidemic.


Medical personnel push a patient on a stretcher to a waiting medical helicopter at Emile Muller Hospital in Mulhouse, in eastern France, to be evacuated to another hospital on March 17.



- Stay home

"Stay at home", chant the authorities since the Covid-19 epidemic invaded the territory. Okay, but once at home, what else can we do? Here is a list of the help that you can bring, on your scale, to the courageous French nursing staff.



- Give your masks
France is facing a shortage of surgical masks (reserved for patients) and FFP2 (more protective, reserved for caregivers). However, every day passers-by circulate in the streets with one of these precious masks on their faces. Wednesday March 18, Director General of Health Jérôme Salomon said he was "shocked". "These masks are of no use on the street." If you have masks, bring them to the nearest pharmacy or hospital.


- Donate your blood and platelets
"There are less than 15 days of blood reserve and less than 3 days of platelet reserve", warns Jérôme Salomon Wednesday March 18. He calls on the French to continue to donate their blood and their platelets in the donation centers, provided with their certificate of derogatory displacement, by checking the reason "assistance to vulnerable people".



- Give them time
To help caregivers and vulnerable people keep their children and do their shopping, the En Première Ligne website opened on Sunday, March 15. If you are under 60 and are in good health, it allows you to get in touch with those who need it.


A Facebook group also makes it possible to provide help on an ad hoc basis, in particular by funding the meals of the carers delivered to the hospital.



- Support research
Several organizations have opened an emergency fund for research against Covid-19:

⦁ The AP-HP Hôpitaux de Paris
⦁ The World Health Organization
⦁ The Institut Pasteur
The Foundation for Medical Research



- Encourage them

If it is easier for a sports team to win a home game, it is thanks to public support! Encouragement can also benefit from this psychological support. Every day at 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. (watch social networks and open your windows!), Rounds of applause resound in the cities. In addition to applauding, don't hesitate to film and post the result.

And of course, we can never repeat it enough: stay at home as much as possible!


COVID-19 : how to help healthcare workers to fight Coronavirus? and Coronavirus: how to help healthcare workers to fight Covid-19?