The Pulse: Test Your Cold and Flu Knowledge
Video Transcript
[MUSIC PLAYING]
INTERVIEWER: How do you sneeze?
What's the great way to sneeze?
SUBJECT 1: Whatever way it comes out.
[LAUGHTER]
INTERVIEWER: Show me how you do that.
SUBJECT 2: Ah-choo!
SUBJECT 3: Tissue and--
SUBJECT 4: Probably one of those, you know?
INTERVIEWER: Into your elbow. Or what else?
SUBJECT 4: Yeah. Not your hand, because then you've got to touch people.
INTERVIEWER: That's right. OK. You could go into your elbow. Or you use a tissue to cover your nose and your mouth.
SUBJECT 5: Yeah, that would be ideal.
INTERVIEWER: OK.
SUBJECT 6: I have learned to do this, not do this.
INTERVIEWER: How do you sneeze?
SUBJECT 7: In your elbow.
SUBJECT 8: Do it into my arm.
INTERVIEWER: Into your arm.
SUBJECT 8: Yeah.
INTERVIEWER: Into your elbow.
SUBJECT 9: I usually just sneeze into my elbow like this.
INTERVIEWER: OK. Kind of the Dracula move. Is that right?
SUBJECT 9: Is that what that's called?
INTERVIEWER: They do! They call it the Dracula. Show me how you sneeze.
SUBJECT 10: Into your elbow.
INTERVIEWER: Into your elbow. You know what we call that?
SUBJECT 10: Dab.
[LAUGHTER] [MUSIC PLAYING]
INTERVIEWER: How far can things fly out of our nose when we sneeze? Any idea?
SUBJECT 11: It's too far.
INTERVIEWER: It is far.
SUBJECT 9: 50 feet sounds outrageous. But I'm going to go with that.
SUBJECT 3: Maybe a foot.
SUBJECT 10: 15 feet.
SUBJECT 2: About three or four feet.
SUBJECT 12: I don't know, 10 feet?
SUBJECT 13: Like five feet or something. It's crazy.
SUBJECT 7: How far?
INTERVIEWER: About 26 feet.
SUBJECT 7: Ew.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
INTERVIEWER: Did you get your flu shots?
SUBJECT 1: Yes.
SUBJECT 14: Yeah.
SUBJECT 9: I did not. INTERVIEWER: Why not?
SUBJECT 9: Just didn't want to.
SUBJECT 7: No.
SUBJECT 15: I did not.
SUBJECT 16: Which is bad, because she's a pharmacist.
INTERVIEWER: Can the flu shot cause the flu?
SUBJECT 1: Sometimes in some people. It depends on your immune system.
SUBJECT 2: I think it can.
SUBJECT 17: Perhaps. Well, I guess it's hard to say.
SUBJECT 9: Probably not, no.
SUBJECT 4: I don't think so, no. Because it's, supposed to at least, prevent it.
SUBJECT 18: Good question. I don't know. But they told me no.
INTERVIEWER: That's right. It does not cause the flu. Thank you.
SUBJECT 6: No.
SUBJECT 15: No, absolutely not.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
INTERVIEWER: Now, hand washing is key to avoid cold and flu. How long should we wash our hands for?
SUBJECT 4: You going to, ooh, sing the ABCs backwards.
INTERVIEWER: The ABCs backwards.
SUBJECT 4: I know that one.
INTERVIEWER: How do you do that? Sing that for me.
SUBJECT 4: Or I guess any direction, but the ABCs.
SUBJECT 15: Is it a full two minutes?
SUBJECT 19: You should wash it for--
SUBJECT 20: 30 seconds.
SUBJECT 19: --singing the ABCs twice or something like that,
INTERVIEWER: How long does that take?
SUBJECT 19: Or happy birthday twice.
SUBJECT 12: 30 seconds.
SUBJECT 21: 30 seconds.
INTERVIEWER: Right. About 20, 30 seconds.
SUBJECT 14: 15 to 20 seconds. You sing the happy birthday song.
INTERVIEWER: Happy birthday song. About 20 seconds.
[LAUGHTER]
That's right. All right. Thank you very much.
SUBJECT 1: That's it?
INTERVIEWER: You were great.
SUBJECT 1: Thank you.
SUBJECT 14: Thank you. Thank you.
SUBJECT 1: Have a good one.
INTERVIEWER: I can ask you a couple more if you want.
SUBJECT 1: Nope. Bye.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
SUBJECT 1: Whatever way it comes out.
[LAUGHTER]
INTERVIEWER: Show me how you do that.
SUBJECT 2: Ah-choo!
SUBJECT 3: Tissue and--
SUBJECT 4: Probably one of those, you know?
INTERVIEWER: Into your elbow. Or what else?
SUBJECT 4: Yeah. Not your hand, because then you've got to touch people.
INTERVIEWER: That's right. OK. You could go into your elbow. Or you use a tissue to cover your nose and your mouth.
SUBJECT 5: Yeah, that would be ideal.
INTERVIEWER: OK.
SUBJECT 6: I have learned to do this, not do this.
INTERVIEWER: How do you sneeze?
SUBJECT 7: In your elbow.
SUBJECT 8: Do it into my arm.
INTERVIEWER: Into your arm.
SUBJECT 8: Yeah.
INTERVIEWER: Into your elbow.
SUBJECT 9: I usually just sneeze into my elbow like this.
INTERVIEWER: OK. Kind of the Dracula move. Is that right?
SUBJECT 9: Is that what that's called?
INTERVIEWER: They do! They call it the Dracula. Show me how you sneeze.
SUBJECT 10: Into your elbow.
INTERVIEWER: Into your elbow. You know what we call that?
SUBJECT 10: Dab.
[LAUGHTER] [MUSIC PLAYING]
INTERVIEWER: How far can things fly out of our nose when we sneeze? Any idea?
SUBJECT 11: It's too far.
INTERVIEWER: It is far.
SUBJECT 9: 50 feet sounds outrageous. But I'm going to go with that.
SUBJECT 3: Maybe a foot.
SUBJECT 10: 15 feet.
SUBJECT 2: About three or four feet.
SUBJECT 12: I don't know, 10 feet?
SUBJECT 13: Like five feet or something. It's crazy.
SUBJECT 7: How far?
INTERVIEWER: About 26 feet.
SUBJECT 7: Ew.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
INTERVIEWER: Did you get your flu shots?
SUBJECT 1: Yes.
SUBJECT 14: Yeah.
SUBJECT 9: I did not. INTERVIEWER: Why not?
SUBJECT 9: Just didn't want to.
SUBJECT 7: No.
SUBJECT 15: I did not.
SUBJECT 16: Which is bad, because she's a pharmacist.
INTERVIEWER: Can the flu shot cause the flu?
SUBJECT 1: Sometimes in some people. It depends on your immune system.
SUBJECT 2: I think it can.
SUBJECT 17: Perhaps. Well, I guess it's hard to say.
SUBJECT 9: Probably not, no.
SUBJECT 4: I don't think so, no. Because it's, supposed to at least, prevent it.
SUBJECT 18: Good question. I don't know. But they told me no.
INTERVIEWER: That's right. It does not cause the flu. Thank you.
SUBJECT 6: No.
SUBJECT 15: No, absolutely not.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
INTERVIEWER: Now, hand washing is key to avoid cold and flu. How long should we wash our hands for?
SUBJECT 4: You going to, ooh, sing the ABCs backwards.
INTERVIEWER: The ABCs backwards.
SUBJECT 4: I know that one.
INTERVIEWER: How do you do that? Sing that for me.
SUBJECT 4: Or I guess any direction, but the ABCs.
SUBJECT 15: Is it a full two minutes?
SUBJECT 19: You should wash it for--
SUBJECT 20: 30 seconds.
SUBJECT 19: --singing the ABCs twice or something like that,
INTERVIEWER: How long does that take?
SUBJECT 19: Or happy birthday twice.
SUBJECT 12: 30 seconds.
SUBJECT 21: 30 seconds.
INTERVIEWER: Right. About 20, 30 seconds.
SUBJECT 14: 15 to 20 seconds. You sing the happy birthday song.
INTERVIEWER: Happy birthday song. About 20 seconds.
[LAUGHTER]
That's right. All right. Thank you very much.
SUBJECT 1: That's it?
INTERVIEWER: You were great.
SUBJECT 1: Thank you.
SUBJECT 14: Thank you. Thank you.
SUBJECT 1: Have a good one.
INTERVIEWER: I can ask you a couple more if you want.
SUBJECT 1: Nope. Bye.
[MUSIC PLAYING]