COVID-19: A Global Pandemic
Updated June 5, 2020 at 8:45 a.m.
Bold and underlined items are links to quality websites and key resources for you and your family.
Symptoms of COVID-19.
Social distancing is the physical space between you and another person. Keep a 6 foot distance between you and other people.
Protect Yourself by:
- Wash your hands regularly for at least 20 seconds.
- Cover your nose and mouth when you cough or sneeze.
- Keep a personal radius of six feet around yourself.
- Regularly clean and disinfect commonly used surfaces and objects.
- Avoid people who are sick.
Are your efforts helping to flatten the curve?
The CDC now offers guidance on the use of cloth face coverings to help slow the spread of disease. This handout shows how to wear one and offers 3 patterns to make cloth face coverings. Aqui esta informacion en Espanol. A handout in Espanol.
Reminder: If you plan to travel outside of your local community, please check for travel advisories for areas with significant community transmission and steps to follow once you return home. Social distancing and protective measures should be continued.
Definitions:
- Self-Quarantine-Stay home. It is important that you avoid contact with others to avoid spreading the infection to others.
- Self-Monitor-Monitor your symptoms. Check your temperature twice daily, and write down any symptoms you have. If you develop symptoms of COVID-19 like fever, cough, shortness of breath or others and need medical care, call your doctor.
Wisconsin COVID-19 Data Portal: This page offers several views of the data in Wisconsin.
Ways to Promote Children's Resilience to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
This resource can support a parent in talking with children about what the COVID-19 situation means. This one is targeted to helping your children cope with the situation. New 4-7-2020: Building resiliency and providing a supportive relationship between children and trusted adults/parents are key to managing in this uncertainty.
A video for children to explain coronavirus and the current situation.
Non-Medical Questions: TEXT COVID19 to 211-211 or Call 211 or Visit 211 Wisconsin.org (Assistance with finding food - paying for housing bills - accessing free childcare - other essential services
Children and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services will keep updates at this website. Links to resources are also included here.
Travel advisory updates are located here. Please check here before and after you travel.
Columbia County COVID-19 webpage.
Marquette County COVID-19 webpage.
Key Messages
- If you are experiencing signs and symptoms of COVID-19, please call your health care provider
- You are safer at home.
- We all need to work together and stay home. This will help us flatten the curve and protect the capacity of the health care system to serve those who will suffer with the most severe disease from COVID-19. Keeping our health care system from becoming overwhelmed so it can care for us during this pandemic is our number one priority.
- The only tool we have to stem the tide of COVID-19 is physical separation from each other. We have to stop this virus from spreading further.
- The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting changes to our lifestyles, can make anyone anxious or even depressed. Do not hesitate to ask for help if you're feeling overwhelmed. Call 800-985-5990 to speak to a trained crisis counselor or text TalkWithUS to 66747.
- While you may not be able to be in the same room with your support system, you can still call or video chat with them.
- Younger people, and particularly those who are 18 to 30 years old, aren’t immune to COVID-19. Anyone can contract COVID-19. So it's important for everyone, including young and healthy people, to practice social distancing.
- Together we can make a difference in the fight against COVID-19.
- Stay home if you can and especially if you are sick.
- Wash your hands frequently and thoroughly.
- Practice social distancing. Please keep six feet between people and avoid direct physical contact
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) believes that symptoms of COVID-19 may appear in as few as two days or as long as 14 days after contact with someone who has COVID-19. If you have been to an affected geographic area within the past two weeks and develop symptoms, call your doctor.
Personal protective equipment (PPE): Learning to put on and take off personal protective equipment, such as gloves, face masks and facial covers are as important as using one. Here is a video on the proper use of PPE. This is a handout How to don (put on), use and doff (remove) ppe.
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