User:Hannah Antonia/sandbox

In order to prevent COVID-19 we need to stay at home, follow the rules of the goverment, sanitize your self always and be clean. Maintain a healthy, well-balanced diet. Stay hydrated, especially if you're throwing up or have diarrhea. Treat your symptoms like you would for other infections, like the common cold. If you have a fever or muscle aches, you can take over-the-counter medications like acetaminophen, naproxen or ibuprofen. Some drugs will do more harm than good, such as antibiotics. "Antibiotics, in general, do not help COVID-19," says Dr. Boer. Antibiotics combat bacteria, not viruses. So you're left with the side effects of the antibiotics while getting no benefit at all. "Hydroxychloroquine and its derivatives have also shown no benefit to treating COVID-19. A lot of the data shows that it could lead to cardiac events or other secondary outcomes."