All statements about COVID-19

116 statements about COVID-19 in 14 sources, by upload date.

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2020

2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says that last week (week of 24 February 2020), especially being a doctor, he decided to educate himself about what is going on with the coronavirus. — 00:00:00
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali explains that the coronavirus in the news is SARS-CoV-2, one of a family of coronaviruses, and the disease it causes is coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19. — 00:00:29
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says COVID-19 is a respiratory virus thought to have originated in bats, with the first cases thought to be in Wuhan, China; since January 2020 it has spread worldwide. (hedged) — 00:00:58
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali reports, from the Johns Hopkins University tracker on 6 March 2020, 101,587 confirmed COVID-19 cases (about 80,000 in mainland China) and 3,460 deaths (2,931 in Hubei). — 00:01:27
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali lists confirmed COVID-19 cases outside China on 6 March 2020: 6,600 in South Korea, 4,700 in Iran, 4,600 in Italy and 163 in the UK. — 00:01:56
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali notes that estimates suggest about 80% of people with the coronavirus get only very mild symptoms, so many may never be tested and are missing from the confirmed counts. — 00:01:56
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says that beyond the 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases there are probably hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of people carrying the virus without having been tested. (hedged) — 00:03:01
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali puts COVID-19 mortality at about 3.5% (3,500 deaths among 100,000 cases), far lower than about 10% for SARS and 35% for MERS. — 00:03:30
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says COVID-19 reached 100,000 cases in 53 days, while SARS took about eight months to infect 800 people and MERS a whole year to infect its first 200. (doubtful: about eight months to infect 800 people) — 00:03:51
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali concludes the coronavirus is a big deal because it spreads very fast and kills many: even a fairly low 3.5% mortality, applied to a few million people, is a lot of deaths. — 00:04:21
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali explains that the coronavirus is thought to travel in heavy droplets, so it is not caught just by sharing air: a droplet coughed onto a surface passes to the hand, then to the face and lungs. (hedged) — 00:04:50
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali judges the chance of catching the coronavirus in the UK very small, with 163 confirmed cases in a population of 66 million. — 00:05:19
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali reads the NHS website's list of places where recent travel raises the risk of catching the coronavirus: China, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Iran, Italy, Japan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Tenerife (only the H10 Costa Adeje Palace hotel), Thailand and Vietnam. — 00:05:48
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says COVID-19 symptoms resemble those of other respiratory viruses such as the common cold and flu: fever, cough and shortness of breath. — 00:06:18
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali cites the World Health Organization's estimate that COVID-19 causes potentially severe breathing difficulties in one in six people, about 15% of cases. — 00:06:47
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali reports that Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, puts overall COVID-19 mortality at probably 1% or less, since confirmed cases undercount those infected. (hedged) — 00:07:16
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says people over 80 are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, though some estimates say 90% of over-80s would probably survive. (hedged) — 00:07:45
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says people with heart disease, respiratory disease, diabetes or immune deficiency are probably more likely, possibly much more likely, to become severely unwell or die from COVID-19. (hedged) — 00:07:45
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says survival depends on the health system: in the UK, he, his mum or his grandma would most likely survive COVID-19. (hedged) — 00:08:35
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says people recover from the coronavirus, as the 55,863 confirmed recoveries so far did, by their own immune system fighting it off. — 00:09:33
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali explains that when the coronavirus causes breathing difficulties, hospitals give supportive treatment, the fullest form being a mechanical ventilator or assisted ventilation in intensive care. — 00:10:02
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says that where there are no intensive care units it is much harder to support breathing, so the chance of dying from COVID-19 is much higher. — 00:10:32
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says there is no cure for COVID-19 yet; big trials are under way, and China is trialling known antiviral drugs on thousands of people. — 00:11:01
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali names Kaletra, a combination of two anti-HIV drugs, as a drug hoped to work against the coronavirus. (hedged) — 00:11:30
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali names remdesivir, tried on Ebola patients in West Africa, as a drug hoped to have some efficacy against the coronavirus. (hedged) — 00:11:30
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says some Chinese doctors hope the anti-malarial chloroquine helps against COVID-19. (hedged) — 00:11:30
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali confirms there is no cure and no vaccine for COVID-19 so far. — 00:11:59
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says there is no reason to panic about the coronavirus. — 00:11:59
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali endorses the phrase going around social media, "alert, not anxious": stay alert about the coronavirus without being too anxious. — 00:12:39
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says he understands the worry of people in countries with many confirmed cases or health systems not built for an outbreak, and of those whose loved ones are elderly or ill. — 00:12:39
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says the whole world is now fighting the coronavirus and, with collective brains together, will hopefully find something to get humanity through. (hedged) — 00:13:37
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — recommendation: Ali: Against the coronavirus Ali advises washing hands more regularly than usual, again on arriving at work or home. — 00:13:37
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — recommendation: Ali passes on the classic advice to avoid touching your face, since virus droplets on the hands can reach the lungs that way, and calls it good advice in general. — 00:14:22
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says he finds it very hard not to touch his face, so he relies on hand washing to lower his risk of catching the coronavirus, especially at work in the hospital. — 00:14:47
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — recommendation: Ali advises anyone with cold or flu symptoms (fever, shortness of breath, cough, muscle aches) who has been in contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case to follow their own country's advice. — 00:14:47
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says that in the UK the NHS 111 coronavirus helpline asks callers who suspect the coronavirus questions and tells them exactly what to do. — 00:15:24
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says nearly every UK hospital now has COVID-19 testing pods outside, where people are swabbed and tested for the coronavirus. — 00:15:24
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali explains that self-isolating for the coronavirus means not going to work, school or public places for about two weeks. — 00:15:54
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — recommendation: Ali: Outside the UK, Ali suggests searching online for your own country's coronavirus advice from a trustworthy website. — 00:16:23
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — recommendation: Ali advises members of the public not to wear a face mask against the coronavirus. — 00:16:23
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says face masks should be saved for hospitals, where there is evidence they work, while there is no evidence they protect members of the general public. — 00:16:54
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali calls this an amazing time in history: an interesting virus spreading when humanity is more connected than ever. — 00:17:23
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali lists the coronavirus's economic and social effects so far: global stock markets dipping, major events cancelled and flights to whole countries stopped. — 00:17:53
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali reports that, with the news covering the coronavirus around the clock, some people say the mass panic is probably more damaging than the potential pandemic itself. — 00:18:22
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali stresses that COVID-19 is a real disease affecting real people around the world, whether we see them or not. — 00:18:51
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — Ali says the coronavirus situation keeps changing and could become much more serious, but whatever happens it is always better to be alert, not anxious. (hedged) — 00:18:51
2020-03-07 · CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) - The Basics — announcement: Ali says he will hopefully post more coronavirus updates as the situation evolves. (hedged) — 00:19:50
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali says that in a previous video he implied the seasonal flu kills many people every year without anyone caring, and he wants to compare COVID-19 and the flu with more nuance. — 00:00:00
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali says COVID-19 and the seasonal flu are hard to tell apart by symptoms: fever and dry cough are the main COVID-19 symptoms but occur with the flu too, as both are respiratory viruses. — 00:00:58
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali reports the WHO estimate that COVID-19 can incubate for about 14 days before symptoms, against about three days for the seasonal flu. — 00:00:58
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: In the UK the NHS 111 helpline guides callers who think they have the flu or COVID-19, asking about travel to listed countries and contact with confirmed cases. — 00:01:27
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — recommendation: Ali advises anyone who thinks they may have COVID-19, in any country, to contact their local healthcare provider and not to go into hospital, where they would infect other people. — 00:01:56
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: In the UK, coronavirus testing is done in isolation: pods outside most hospitals and drive-through services where a mouth swab is taken in the car. — 00:02:26
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali says antibiotics do not work against COVID-19 or the seasonal flu, because both are caused by viruses and antibiotics act only on bacteria. — 00:02:26
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: China, the US and other countries are running trials of drugs known to work against viruses such as HIV, to see whether they work against the coronavirus. — 00:02:55
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: For the seasonal flu, oseltamivir (Tamiflu) is sometimes given to patients with severe symptoms within the first 48 hours; COVID-19 has no equivalent drug. — 00:02:55
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: The flu has a vaccine but COVID-19 does not yet; Ali reports estimates of at least 12 to 18 months before a COVID-19 vaccine is developed and in circulation. — 00:03:24
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: The only treatment for COVID-19 is supportive: helping patients breathe, sometimes with mechanical or assisted ventilation in intensive care, while the immune system fights the virus; severe flu is managed the same way. — 00:04:20
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: Around 80% of people with COVID-19 have mild symptoms and need no help breathing, while about 15 to 20% get severe complications. — 00:04:50
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: Because COVID-19 is growing exponentially, the number of hospital beds that can give ventilatory support might become the limiting factor. (hedged) — 00:05:19
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: Italy has 9,172 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of 10 March 2020, and Italian intensive care doctors say the country has run out of intensive care beds, cancelling elective operations and converting operating theatres. — 00:05:19
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: The UK has 373 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of 10 March 2020, mostly mild, but more people are being admitted to intensive care for ventilatory support. — 00:05:48
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali warns that if COVID-19 spreads in the UK as it has in Italy, the UK might run out of intensive care beds, leaving some patients without respiratory support. (hedged) — 00:05:48
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali says Italy's healthcare system is about as developed as the UK's, yet its hospitals are said to be at 200% of normal capacity, which he calls unsustainable. (hedged) — 00:06:17
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: In America, 23 people have died of COVID-19 so far, against tens of thousands who die of the flu each year. — 00:07:16
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: Of 116,558 confirmed COVID-19 cases there have been 4,090 deaths, a mortality of about three and a bit percent; on the data so far COVID-19 is about three times more likely to kill than the flu. — 00:07:45
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali says the COVID-19 figure is probably too high: Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, puts overall mortality closer to 1% or less, similar to the seasonal flu. (hedged) — 00:08:14
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: One reason the COVID-19 mortality figure is high is that a disproportionate number of cases were in Hubei province, China, where the outbreak started and which was not prepared for the disease. — 00:08:14
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: The 116,558 COVID-19 cases are only people who tested positive; many with mild symptoms may not know they have the disease and are not counted. — 00:08:43
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali argues the flu is an enemy we know, with known progression, vaccines and treatments, while COVID-19 is an enemy we know little about. — 00:09:13
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: It is not yet certain how COVID-19 spreads: the best theory, which Ali thinks probably right, is that it is airborne, but this is not confirmed. (hedged) — 00:09:42
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali says the comparison between coronavirus and the flu works on some levels but misses that something unknown, spreading like wildfire and already straining first-world healthcare systems, is much harder to deal with. — 00:10:11
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali says it is a good thing that society is taking many precautions to delay the spread of COVID-19, given the uncertainty about it. — 00:10:42
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: Many high-profile mass events have been cancelled because of the coronavirus, and there is talk of cancelling the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Euro 2020. — 00:11:11
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: The coronavirus has an economic impact never seen with seasonal flu: the stock market has dived over the last few days, with comparisons to the 2008 financial crisis. — 00:11:11
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — recommendation: Ali urges people to be alert, not anxious: panicking is never the right answer, but COVID-19 looks more and more like a global threat and should be taken seriously. — 00:11:40
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali says the comparison with the seasonal flu should not be a reason for complacency about the coronavirus. — 00:12:09
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — recommendation: Ali sums up the first of Thomas Pulimood's ten COVID-19 tips: preparedness is the key, rather than panicking. — 00:00:00
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — recommendation: Ali says people should avoid physical contact with elderly relatives during the COVID-19 pandemic, because they are far more vulnerable than young, fit, healthy people. — 00:00:29
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — Ali says the COVID-19 situation changes so fast that viewers should check current guidance; as of March 2020 the advice is to self-isolate for 14 days if symptomatic, the time the disease is thought to be infectious. (hedged) — 00:00:58
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — recommendation: Ali sums up Thomas Pulimood's seventh tip: wash your hands, especially on coming into and out of the house, on coming home from work and after handling anything that has touched the outside world. — 00:00:58
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — recommendation: Ali urges viewers to stop smoking during the COVID-19 pandemic. — 00:01:27
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — recommendation: Ali says not to compare one's own country's COVID-19 response with other countries', because their systems, epidemiology and healthcare resources differ markedly, so the advice differs too. — 00:01:27
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — recommendation: Ali says that while many people in Hong Kong wear face masks, the advice in the UK is not to wear them. — 00:01:27
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — Ali tells young people who think they will be fine if they catch COVID-19 that the precautions are not about them but about the wider population. — 00:01:56
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — Thomas Pulimood says panic helps nobody and can spread more widely than the virus itself, doing great harm; people should wind it down and ramp up their preparedness instead: prepared, not panicking. — 00:02:26
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — Thomas Pulimood says the coronavirus spreads from one person to another, and someone in close contact of less than a metre is more likely to catch it. — 00:03:29
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — recommendation: Thomas Pulimood says slowing the coronavirus lets hospitals treat the very sick at a manageable pace, while everyone catching it at once raises deaths, so social isolation and distancing save lives. — 00:03:59
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — Thomas Pulimood says the NHS England website lists the people vulnerable to COVID-19: chronic respiratory or heart disease, diabetes, recent chemotherapy for cancer, and immunosuppression from immune conditions, among others. — 00:04:21
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — Thomas Pulimood says elderly people are more vulnerable to COVID-19 than the general population, as the data from Italy shows very clearly. — 00:04:50
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — recommendation: Thomas Pulimood urges everyone to wash their hands: on coming home, before and after eating, before leaving the house, and after touching door handles that may carry the virus. — 00:06:56
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — Thomas Pulimood says India has over a billion people, half of them under 28, while Italy has many elderly people, so comparing their COVID-19 death rates and concluding that India gets it right and Italy wrong is a mistake. — 00:09:03
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — Thomas Pulimood says COVID-19 affects not only the elderly and vulnerable: some 30-year-olds are coming into intensive care with it. — 00:10:03
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — Thomas Pulimood says some young people have vulnerabilities that were not apparent, such as an immune deficiency or another medical problem. — 00:10:32
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — Ali sums up that COVID-19 is a very big deal: it has a significant mortality and its long-term morbidity is not yet known. — 00:11:11
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — Ali says social distancing and isolating once symptomatic aim to flatten the curve of the pandemic so the healthcare system is not overburdened. — 00:11:40
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — Ali warns that if the healthcare system ran out of intensive care and ventilators, doctors would have to decide who lives and who dies. — 00:11:40
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — Ali says flattening the curve spreads the COVID-19 pandemic over time, so it might last months or even years, giving the health system capacity and researchers time to find cures and vaccines. (hedged) — 00:12:09
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — Ali says doctors from other areas are being redeployed to the COVID-19 front lines to buy time. — 00:12:09
2020-03-24 · How to be More Productive in Lockdown — Ali says going to the gym is a terrible idea during social distancing, so he will work out with gym equipment on his balcony. — 00:08:37
2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — Ali films an exotic study-with-me video on a skiing trip to the French Alps with friends before the COVID-19 lockdown, spending one of the evenings studying instead of socialising. — 00:00:00
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali is deciding whether to stay in Cambridge and apply to a medical training pathway in the UK, travel the world once the COVID-19 situation is sorted, or move to another country to practise medicine; the last two keep his options more open. — 00:05:20
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali: Three things Ali likes about medicine: everyone is really friendly, you talk to patients and touch their lives, and the teamwork and camaraderie, especially strong during the coronavirus period. — 00:11:10
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali finds the Apple Watch nice to have but overall very useless: he uses it only for Apple Pay and cannot wear it at work, where infection control requires bare below the elbows. — 00:17:56
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali: During the COVID-19 isolation Ali is mostly living off takeaways, but he wants to prioritise cooking and healthy eating soon: learning to cook and meal prep healthy, efficient, reasonably priced meals. — 00:19:25
2020-07-17 · Day in the Life as a Doctor (Gynaecology) — Ali: The day-in-the-life footage was filmed many months earlier over several days, before COVID-19, so no one wears masks or keeps social distance. — 00:00:00
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: Before the coronavirus pandemic Ali planned to travel the world in his year out; now he is not sure that will be possible and needs to find something else to do with his time. (hedged) — 00:02:53
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: Under the emergency rota for the coronavirus, three doctors were needed every day out of the four senior house officers on Ali's placement, so getting annual leave was a real problem. — 00:16:07
2020-09-01 · Gymshark, Inspirations & Pet Peeves - ONE MILLION Subscribers Q&A — Ali puts his channel's growth from 600,000 to 1 million subscribers down to the coronavirus keeping people at home and the occasional viral hit. (hedged) — 00:08:36
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali's YouTube revenue has risen exponentially over the last six months, since the COVID-19 lockdown started. — 00:11:19
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali says the lockdown was good for his YouTube channel because suddenly many more people were sitting down to watch videos. — 00:11:19
2020-10-11 (said on 2020-10-08, implied) · How to Invest for Beginners — Ali: Over its history the S&P 500 has trended upwards, with crashes in 2000, in 2008 and early in 2020 as the coronavirus spread, after which the market recovered almost at once. — 00:11:53
2020-12-13 · Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions — Ali goes on few dates partly because it feels like too much effort and partly because of lockdown: just as he decided to take dating more seriously, coronavirus and lockdown came. — 00:22:45
2020-12-20 · 20 Lessons that Improved My Life — Ali: Homework for life helps Ali remember his days: months without it, in the sameness of lockdown, blended together and time moved faster, while doing it slows his perception of time. — 00:14:18
2020-12-20 · 20 Lessons that Improved My Life — announcement: Ali will take a further year out of full-time medical training so that he can travel more, hopefully once the coronavirus situation gets better. — 00:19:05
2020-12-24 · 15 Books To Read This Year — Ali read A Million Miles in a Thousand Years during the UK coronavirus lockdown, on an evening shift at the hospital, in three hours after 9pm with no patients, and was completely absorbed. — 00:00:58