Increasing media coverage of the coronavirus outbreak that began in China is creating some questions in our community. The Joplin City Health Department understands that citizens are concerned about the new coronavirus and have questions about how to protect themselves and their family. Below is helpful information that everyone should know.
The new coronavirus, also called COVID-19, is spread by droplets when a person who is sick coughs and sneezes. It is not yet known whether it also spreads through the air. Most of the cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. so far have been among people with recent travel to areas with COVID-19 outbreaks, or among close personal contacts of someone sick with COVID-19.
Because COVID-19 is a new strain of coronavirus, there is no vaccine yet to protect against it, and our bodies do not have immunity to it. But there are simple steps you can take to protect yourself and your family.
Wash your hands often with soap and water.
Don’t touch your face with unwashed hands.
Keep a distance of 8 feet from people who are sick.
If you are well, you do not need to wear a face mask to try to protect yourself from seasonal flu or coronavirus. Face masks are intended to be worn by people who are sick, to keep germs from travelling far when the person coughs or sneezes. Face masks are also needed by health care workers or family members who must be very close to sick people in order to care for them.
“There are no cases of coronavirus in the city of Joplin at this time, but the City Health Department is still seeing a high number of seasonal flu cases each week,” said Ryan Talken, Interim Health Director. “It is important that everyone in our community stays home when sick. Going to work, to church, or out in the community when you are sick, or sending a sick child to school or daycare puts other people at risk. The best way to protect our whole community is for people who are sick to stay home.”
Talken noted that the public will hear about more cases of coronavirus and seasonal flu in the United States over the weeks and months ahead. The U.S. has a strong public health system that is trained to quickly identify cases and stop the spread of disease. Everyone can do their part to help by staying home when they are sick.
He also emphasized the following: Wash your hands often, don’t touch your face with unwashed hands, and keep a distance from people who are sick. These simple steps will help protect you against coronavirus, the seasonal flu, and many other diseases that are spread from person-to-person. These are the most important things you can do to protect yourself, your family, and our whole community.
For more information, please visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
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The best defense against coronavirus is to not elect incompetent idiots who put our lives in danger due to their stupid policies and incompetent operation of anything they are in charge of. These clowns are probably spending more time in their Dense Pence prayer circles and worrying about snowflake babies and preventing drag queen story hours than fighting the coronavirus epidemic!
Eliminating the US pandemic response infrastructure by firing the NSC and DHS epidemic teams? Tell me how that is working out? PERFECT?
Republican party and republican voters in the age of Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Louie Gohmert, that's you who are responsible for this!
125pm,what a wonderful expression of your outstanding hatred....blaming our government for this situation is what our real enemies love...the World needs to tell China to get rid of their medieval meat markets which greatly help produce crud like flu and Coronavirus....hate won't protect any of us from this mess...
The "thoughts and prayers" that voters like you expect your elected officials to provide in place of meaningful action also won't protect the nation.
" In his fiscal 2021 budget, he also proposed reduced funding for global health programs and funding to the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization. The president defended the proposed cuts when asked about them in a Feb. 26 press conference on the coronavirus.
“We can get money and we can increase staff,” Trump said. “We know all the good people. It’s a question I asked the doctors before. Some of the people we cut, they haven’t been used for many, many years. And if — if we have a need, we can get them very quickly. And rather than spending the money — and I’m a business person — I don’t like having thousands of people around when you don’t need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly.”
Some experts told the Washington Post that it’s not that easy to staff up quickly during a crisis. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/democrats-misleading-coronavirus-claims/
I bet you voted for Trump.
Hard to explain complexity of virus testing,drug development and federal governments massive operations..wish it was easy to budget things away but unfortunately all the jawboning asinine hysteria won't help any of us. Our true enemies delight in our country's lack of civility and bitterness...take a break and reflect
What is not hard to explain is that Trump has sought reductions to infectious disease research and prevention by reducing the CDC budget every year since he took office. We ignorantly spend a massive $738 billion a year on defense, but a paltry $6.5 billion on the CDC despite scientists warnings that pandemics will continue due in part to global warming releasing diseases from the thawing of the permafrost. Our true enemies are the ignorant and uniformed electorate that installs ignorant and uninformed leaders that deny scientific facts. Do everyone a favor and educate yourself, here’s an article from a nonpartisan news organization.
https://news.yahoo.com/did-trump-leave-america-unprepared-110300280.html
Such a fine script..your hatred is eating you up...sorry but you use minimal sources to support your parroted lines,chill...hate hurts you in the end...bitter envy,jealousy or whatever,chill before you take joy from yourself
Before this country was established, in the early 1700’s, there was an English poet named Thomas Gray who stated, “Where ignorance is bliss, ‘‘‘tis folly to be wise.” I see you have taken this literally and must be ecstatic in your ignorance. The rest of us live in reality and recognize the world is full of evil and ignorant people without being a happy idiot. Here’s a video I expect you will find entertaining...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaKVy-FlaUA
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