Colleagues,
Emily Less, Tacoma Pierce County Health Department provided the guidance below.  I would add to Emily's guidance, the CDC guidance to "make a plan" for your family and your workplace - just in case there were disruptions to your ordinary world.  In addition, the state's COVID-19 Fact Sheet says in summary  1) Wash your hands, 2) Don't touch your face, 3) Cover your mouth/nose if any coughs, 4) stay away from sick people, 5) stay home if you are sick.  

Although communication from the White House is disconcerting, I encourage you to stay in touch with the Tacoma Pierce County Dept of Health, the Washington State Dept of Health and anything with Dr. Anthony Faucci's name on it   We are in a period where facts matter.  As information changes, these trusted sources will update their fact sheets.  You can click on the blog and sign up for updates.  

From Emily - I think we should ask her to brief us March 13:  

The risk to Pierce County residents of COVID-19 is low. The fast spread of this disease outside of the U.S. is concerning, and we understand hearing about this in national and international news stories can be alarming. We want people to focus on what they can do now—and what they should plan to do in case we see the spread of disease locally. You can learn more about how public health is preparing for COVID-19 and prevention steps via this blog post.

 

Unfortunately, I am unavailable both this Friday and next Friday morning. I’d be happy to give a brief update on 3/13 during the coalition meeting if the group would like. In the meantime you can refer people to:

 

You can also share the state’s COVID-19 fact sheet available in 11 languages or our fact sheet.

 

Let me know if there are other ways I can be of support.

Emily

 

Emily Less, MPH

Pronouns: She/Her

Public Health Consultant

Communicable Disease

(253) 625-1362 c • eless@tpchd.org

(253) 798-7666 f • www.tpchd.org

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Maureen
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