COVID-19
CRCHD jurisdiction is in the "Critically High" risk category with "Increasing" community transmission.
AVOID CROWDS in CLOSED SPACES in CLOSE CONTACT!
General Recommendations:
- Stay home if you do not need to go out.
- If you leave your home, expect that you may be exposed to COVID-19.
- Wear a mask and maintain at least a 6-foot distance between yourself and others.
- Avoid all unnecessary travel.
- Avoid all public and personal social gatherings of any size.
- If you have to go out, avoid any businesses that are not following the masking order and limiting capacity.
- If you feel sick, stay home.
- Wash your hands frequently and avoid touching your face.
- Follow Executive Order #94 for safety of individuals and best business practices.
- CDC Holiday Guidance
Click each graph to enlarge the image. Updated as of 11.23.2020 at 1:10 p.m.
- Executive Order #95
- Emergency Order #1
- Executive Order #94
- FAQ About Emergency Order #3: Limiting Public Gatherings
- Emergency Order #3: Limiting Public Gatherings
- Executive Order #90: Relating to Declaring a Public Health Emergency
- Emergency Order #1: Required Face Covering Extension
- Statewide Face Coverings Required FAQ (updated 8.11.2020)
- Emergency Order #1: Face Coverings required statewide
- Executive Order #82: Declaration of Public Health Emergency
- Racine County Long-Term Care Facility Lockdown Rescinded
- Emergency Order #36- Interim Order to Turn the Dial
- Emergency Order #34
- Safer at Home Order - Emergency Order #28
- Safer at Home- Emergency Order #28 FAQs
- Safer at Home Order - Emergency Order #12
- Safer at Home- Emergency Order #12 FAQs
- Racine County Long-Term Care Facility Lockdown
- Racine County Emergency Medical Services PPE Order
- Have people work remotely as much as possible with CRCHD in the "Critically High" risk category.
- Follow Executive Order #94.
- Follow WEDC guidance for businesses: Reopen Guidelines for Businesses.
- Follow DHS guidance for businesses: Preventing and Managing COVID-19 Outbreaks in the Workplace.
- Follow DATCP guidance for businesses: COVID-19: Food Supply, Delivery, and Recreational Facilities.
- Report to your local health department when an employee is diagnosed with COVID-19.
- Do not require employees to have a release letter to return to work, as this is an unnecessary burden during an emergency response for a communicable disease.
- Do not require a negative test in order for an employee to return to work after isolation or quarantine: Duration of Isolation and Precautions for Adults with COVID-19.
- OSHA Resources for Employers
- Unemployment Insurance and COVID-19
- Financial Resources to Help Get Through COVID-19
- OSHA Worker Rights and Protections
- Implement virtual learning as much as possible with CRCHD in the "Critically High" risk category.
- If a school is open, on a case-by-case basis CRCHD will review outbreak data and several factors, including but not limited to number of positive cases, extent of exposure, and contact tracing capacity and will make recommendations about a class, school, or district level option e.g. move to hybrid or virtual schooling. Schools and district administrators may also choose to close their schools and districts based on impediments to school functioning, such as high absenteeism and staff shortages.
- WI DPI's Education Forward: Operating Schools During a Pandemic
- WI DHS's Guidelines for the Prevention, Investigation, and Control of COVID-19 Outbreaks in K-12 Schools in Wisconsin
- What to do when you have a positive COVID-19 case in school: CRCHD COVID-19 in School Fact Sheet
- Parent resources:
- Winter sports are not recommended as the jurisdiction is in the "Critically High" risk category. If schools decide to move forward with winter sports, they should follow the WIAA Winter Sports Guidelines.
- It is recommended there be NO spectators. If spectators are present, the limit should be 25% capacity or less with masks and physical distancing enforced.
- In addition, all schools, parents, and athletes should expect large numbers of quarantined students, especially for sports with closer contact.
- Strategies for Preventing Spread of COVID-19 in LTCFs
- Preparedness Checklist for Nursing Homes and LTCFs
- Information for Healthcare Providers
- What Healthcare Personnel Should Know
- Pediatric Healthcare Guidance
- Infection Control Guidance
- Clinical Care Guidance
- Home Care Guidance
- EMS Guidance
- Inpatient Obstetric Healthcare Guidance
- Evaluating and Testing Persons for COVID-19
- Healthcare Personnel with Potential Exposure Guidance
- Laboratory Guidance
- FAQs for Laboratories
- FAQs for Healthcare Professionals
- If you have COVID-19 symptoms, you should get tested (see Where can You Get Tested) and stay home until test results come back. If test results are positive, see below "What to Do If You Test Positive."
- If you are having a medical emergency, call 911. Notify dispatch that you have or may have COVID-19.
- If you are unsure if you should be tested, call your local provider. If you have an appointment, please tell them you may have COVID-19.
- Ascension: 833-981-0711 or choose.ascension.org/onlinecare
- Advocate Aurora: 866-443-2584 or www.advocateaurorahealth.org/coronavirus-disease-2019
- Froedtert: 414-805-2000 or www.froedtert.com/telehealth
- For testing with your healthcare provider, call prior to arriving unless it is an emergency.
- For community testing sites, go to:
- CRCHD Testing Site
- Tri-County Testing Sites (Racine, Kenosha, Walworth)
- There is NO TESTING on: Wednesday, November 11; Thursday, November 26; Friday, December 27.
- For Statewide private and community testing sites:
- Isolate at home
- What is isolation? Please see CRCHD Isolation Fact Sheet or DHS: COVID-19 Diagnosed or Close Contact?
- How long do you need to isolate? Please see CRCHD Isolation Fact Sheet or DHS: Isolation Release Times
- How do you isolate and not infect others in the home? Please see CDC: Households Living in Close Quarters
- Do not go to work, school, or other public areas; restrict activities outside of your home, except to get medical care.
- Identify and notify your close contacts
- Tell them you have tested positive and that they should stay home for 14 days starting the day after their last exposure to you.
Please see Next Steps: I tested positive for COVID-19. What can I do to help notify my close contacts of their exposure?. - A Close Contact is defined as any of the following:
- Closer than 6 feet, for 15 minutes or more total in a day
- Direct exposure to coughs, sneezes, or other bodily fluids
- Direct physical contact with someone e.g. hug, kiss, handshake
- Living or having spent the night with someone
- Tell them you have tested positive and that they should stay home for 14 days starting the day after their last exposure to you.
- Notify those who need to know such as your workplace, school, and daycare.
- Answer the phone call from your local health department.
- You do not need to be tested again if you have recently had a positive test. Your test may be positive for many weeks after you recover. You do not need a negative test to stop isolating.
- A Close Contact is defined as any of the following:
- Closer than 6 feet, for 15 minutes or more total in a day
- Direct exposure to coughs, sneezes, or other bodily fluids
- Direct physical contact with someone e.g. hug, kiss, handshake
- Living or having spent the night with someone
- What is quarantine? Please see CRCHD Quarantine Fact Sheet or DHS COVID-19: Diagnosed or Close Contact?
- How long do you need to quarantine? Please see CRCHD Quarantine Fact Sheet or Next Steps: Close Contacts of Someone With COVID-19
- If you develop COVID-19 symptoms during quarantine, you should get tested (see Where can You get Tested?)
- Even if you have a negative test during quarantine, you still need to stay home for 14 days.
- Click here for the CRCHD COVID-19 Quarantine Letter form. Please complete this form if you need documentation of your quarantine for employment or school purposes.
