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FREE Covid drive-thru testing available from the Hamilton Co. Health Department at the Alstom site

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FREE Covid drive-thru testing available from the Hamilton Co. Health Department at the Alstom site
FREE Covid drive-thru testing available from the Hamilton Co. Health Department at the Alstom site

FREE Covid drive-thru testing available from the Hamilton Co.

Health Department at the Alstom site

Now more than ever get to the allowing ... you ... love immaculate satellite images or decreasing the the area our numbers of overnight in cases are unfortunately ... increasing this morning with some information from the hamilton county health department on how to low or make stop the spread of cobra 19 in our homes here that information is ms. connie beake good morning connie how are you good morning i'm great how are you doing greater coursework uptake in cobra 19 cases across our region we know that the cold weather affects this as part of that patel is a little bit more the most recent information on how the virus does spread ... well we believe it certainly ... spreads most often person-to- person and usually through bein in close proximity to somebody who has the virus ... may not even know that have the virus we ... have a lot of cases that have no symptoms at all to you can't really tell when you're near somebody who might be positive ... any mention that close to close contact the course when someone is at home and we have a positive case with a family member we live in the same household i you have some tips for us on how to maybe blow the spread if not keep the rest of our family safe and were inside the same household ... tips with us if you will please it's a very tricky situation when somebody positive in your household and everybody is not positive so every minute that ... the rest of the family is around somebody who is tested positive for being exposed to the to the infection ... so it's best if there is one person in the household positive ... that they get their own room and if it's possible to give them their own bathroom and ... get them to stay separate from everybody else ... to everyone's benefit under the ... difficult or impossible in some situations but ... in everybody's house ... family and household situation is a friend that you particularly want to try to protect the elderly and people with chronic health ... because they ... are at higher risk for serious complications ... infection ... so people with somebody in the house who ... test positive they want to clean the house will clean the surfac as well as much is possible that the window to scare the house out and try to keep people from the problem is the two days up to two days before somebody tes positive ... or has sent to show symptoms there ... contagious ear infections to other people ... and so it's hard to say unless somebody else in the house is totally out of town prior to that that they haven't been ... so it's kind of hard to send kids off to grandma's when the party been around the person that has the positive ... test right across the coming course everyone's a home into w know what the situation as i'm you're also suggesting to wear our mass inside the home in a course prevent pets and childre from going between the person's room and the rest of the household ... coming to be the best thing to do we know can get coated how much of it gets trends in it from them is not known and how sick ... the animal can get is that no so any ... people have pets that are part of their families and not just to animals in their home that they won't be careful with that so wearing a mask in the household just like anywhere else does help ... protect the people from trent ... mission i think it if somebody is in is the western in their bedroom it is really necessary for everybody else where mass when they are not in their present ... so i think that's one thing to keep in mind we don't want to just ... that ... things that are really really hard to do ... are absolutely necessary across the best practices of course to do all the things that we can t prevent bringing ... cobra 19 into our homes and you have a few tips on prevention a he had toward the court month ... well ... everybody needs to keep in mind wearing a mask when the relevan distancing and and if you know we try to encourage ... everyone that if they're sick ... with anything they have any kind of symptoms they should stay home and not put themselves in a position of ... communicating that to others and that will certainly help if you are having gatherings of the family ... if it's the same house ... hold family unit is perfectly fine to have a dinner in the house as long as everybody is either negative or positive unanimity ... is showing any symptoms of anything ... it just a little bit trickier when you interact with other people go to their homes or they come to earth ... that adds an element of risk ... so smaller is better for this ... particular holiday season absolutely aggressive better to have one thing holiday that has several more in the future i've interested offer wi-fi connie things that are joining a again there are some retesting courtesy of the health department available time at

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