Hamilton County Health Department establishes a Coronavirus Hotline number
Hamilton County Health Department establishes a Coronavirus Hotline number
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This got the nation and the world's attention right here in hamilton county we have got dr. paul hendrix who was with the public county health department, dr. hendrix, good t see you april pre-stores also enables the emergency management planner so morning t you both on your the doctor here in the hot seat right off the bat where we stand now will where we stand is we are workin hard to ... to manage the this disease try that right now hamilton county as most people know has had one positive case of person is actually already recovered from that and were glad that we reached out to contacts and to make sure that no one else is i effect by this and watching people.
We are watching weird tracking a lot of the tests are being done in the county to picture the they come back negative and to see if this virus is spreading a door county.
We know it's into the sea.
We know it's the country so were just doing this weekend to keep our people safe.
It certainly is no small task.
We are looking at something like this which has some medical guy again you ever seen a disease gripped the country's attention like this.
I really never have been people got upset about previous things worried all of those coping with a member had the impact of the spreader really the potential that this one does as farce very contagious.
Whereas most people will will do okay probably will get it.
They're still going to be a large number that will get very sick and we need to do all we can to prevent this, the spread of the virus right april from the emergency management and planning step tell us where you and your team come into pla on this health throughout the year, even in nonemergencies, w maintain several all hazard emergency management and what we are doing right now is we are reviewing this plan and we have been meeting with our key partner, such as buyer and our hospital to make sure that everybody's on the same page an implementing the roles and responsibilities that they are tasked with in the dr. energy said you would not see anything on par with this part of this could be because the last huge scare.
We had, it seems like the government, the medical community.
They had their hands around some that they could grasp and try and fix the problem.
The solution here seems a little bit or a lot more elusive when it comes to the coronavirus well it is of different below average for the past been like flu.
We know how to treat that we got medications and vaccines for that even as you are the one comes up with this virus.
At present, there still no vaccine, and there still no specific treatment now to the treatment remains very much addressed to symptoms and addressed adjusted treated with clinical pressure.
The patient, so it's in person, such as viruses a lot of things we don' know about the effect we dwindled.
Contagious, but exactly how it spreads how long it lasts exactly what.
Pages are there still so many questions w don't have about virus the answers to as a position for decades.
What scares you the most.
Well it's the possibility of overwhelming her healthcare system is possibility of having such a large number of patients at the same time that we don't have a place for the.
This is why were trying to we can to slow down this red and to decrease the numbers of women take care of, we can take care of people in appropriate numbers.
But if we over overwhelming number had some equipment we have that can become much more in april.
I would think from your chair that's also a big if not the big point of concern and one of the things that we can do to accomplish this and slow down this ride.
This disease practiced nonpharmaceutical interventions and this is a term that we use in public health to help the public practice to specific measures they can do.
I like washing their hands to their practicing proper respiratory etiquette, and they can and makes their standing 6 feet away from other people, especially if the other people are exhibiting any signs of respiratory illness.
This is sort of the thing that not only creates a lot of unrest physically a lot of people are having really difficult times emotionally and mentally grasping their head or their hands around the potential of this.
What can we do to help you all with the health department.
Spread the word were trying to counter misinformation by making sure that people have reliable sources to go to to get their facts from this information, like what i will make sure that they're going to hotline.
For example, to call acid and we ca tell them not looking at and some avenues on the medium say that maybe i'm one who was i didn't have a background in science and answering ashton and we do that if you call the hotline.
We have a team of leave.
I'm such as people for business, and church as school outreach organizations and you are more than welcome to get information from us and we will direct you to a list of resources of and that you might be able to double resources that you can gain further informatio for only a few seconds left.
What are one or two of the sign we can look forward they may be.
Maybe the coronavirus has reached its peak ... well that's can be difficult to know in advance will be watching for if we start seeing decreases in the number of new cases daily.
I think that would be encouraging to see that over time, there's always a concern about kind of rebound active start relaxing getting backed out laptop back into the have also if you really difficult things can be hard to know until until got there, we will probably extend these precautions.
In retrospect, beyond the.
They need to be, but that's what you need to be extra cautious and dr. paul hendrix.
Thank you for your time april.
Thank you for your time as well together has been hotline established, you have questions, call him at 423 questions, call him