tony collier lives with advanced prostate cancer.es a week, despite his diagnosis. but the illness has left him especially vulnerable to infections like coughs and colds, and now coronavirus. because i have no male hormone, i seem to have great difficulty fighting off infections. and i got the flu, and it really knocked me for six for about three months. and i'd normally recover much more quickly than that. where would you pitch your own level of concern over coronavirus? what i'm trying to do is continue to live life as normally as possible. i'm not avoiding crowds. but i'm just taking the usual, sensible precautions, such as hand washing, which is what we've been told to do. so, i think it's important to try to live normally, not to over panic, not to overreact, but actually be aware that there is a risk. the government is promoting good hygiene, hand washing, alongside using and disposing of paper tissues, as an important way to minimise the risk of passing on the infection. as this virus starts to spread throughout communities, w