Covid-19
Keep Yourself and Your Community Healthy
- Cover your mouth with a tissue or your upper sleeve when coughing or sneezing.
- Discard used tissues immediately.
- Wash your hands often for at least 20 seconds with soap and water or use hand sanitizer that is 60–90% alcohol-based.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands.
- Practice social distancing. Try to keep an optimal six-foot distance from other people.
- Stay home if you are not feeling well or experiencing flu-like symptoms. Contact your doctor. Call 311 if you need connection to a medical professional.
Look to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for some of the most comprehensive information available regarding the coronavirus outbreak.
Other Resources
- Stay Safe MN - https://staysafe.mn.gov/
- World Health Organization – www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses
- CDC – www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html
- MN Dept of Health – www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/index.html
- MN Department of Education – https://education.mn.gov/MDE/dse/health/covid19
- ALA – www.ala.org/tools/atoz/pandemic-preparedness
- March 13 ALA Statement: www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2020/03/ala-executive-director-tracie-hall-releases-statement-covid-19
- Johns Hopkins map – coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
- Libraries and Pandemic Preparedness – www.nlm.nih.gov/dis_courses/coop/index.html