City of Cupertino, CA County of Santa Clara COVID-19 Videos, 3 Apr 2020

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From YouTube: County of Santa Clara Public Health: New Guidance for Wearing Masks - April 3, 2020

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The Santa Clara County Public Health Department, along with Bay Area health officials, is recommending that residents cover their nose and mouth when leaving home for essentials activities, such as grocery shopping, doctor appointments, and going to the bank.

Face coverings should not be medical masks or other similar products but include any type of breathable material that will cover nose and mouth. Medical masks are in short supply and need to be reserved for health care personnel. Examples of recommended coverings include bandanas and home-sewn fabric coverings.

Medical masks, such as N-95 and surgical masks, are strongly discouraged for general use. Due to the global demand for personal protective equipment (PPE), there is a severe shortage of PPE across the state. Local officials are prioritizing acquisitions of PPE for healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Santa Clara County Public Health asks residents to refrain from purchasing PPE for their own use and to utilize homemade face coverings instead.

This new recommendation is based on developing information from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention that some people may be infectious for a few days prior to symptoms begin or may be infectious and never develop symptoms. Face coverings will help those people from unknowingly infecting other while conducting essential activities.

Strictly following the order to shelter in place and reducing the number of people with whom we come in contact continues to be the most effective way to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Recorded April 3, 2020

For more information regarding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Cupertino, please visit https://www.cupertino.org/coronavirus

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For the latest information regarding the Cova 19 pandemic in Cupertino, please visit Cupertino org, slash coronavirus.

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Good morning my name is Evelyn Howe I'm, the lead public information officer for the county of Santa, Clara, Emergency, Operations Center and with the office of the director in the Public Health Department. Yesterday evening, health officials in the Bay Area issued new recommendations recommending that all individuals wear face coverings, went out doing essential activities. We want to talk a little bit about that recommendation today. Wearing face coverings is a choice to protect others in our community, as new research becomes available about the spread of the novel coronavirus, we continue to update our recommendations.

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What we understand now is that individuals may not show symptoms and still potentially be spreading. The virus. In addition, individuals who may develop symptoms may possibly be contagious for several days prior to their onset of symptoms. Also, those with mild symptoms which may be confused for other types of illnesses or symptoms may also have the potential for spreading and being contagious because of this face covering is recommended to reduce the risk of that transmission.

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When you are going about your essential activities, the reasons health officials are now recommending face coverings is to reduce the spread of droplets. As you go about your activities when you go to the grocery store, when you are interacting with others, it also signals that we are in this together and that we are here to protect one another when I wear a face covering I. Do it to protect others right now, I'm not currently wearing one, because we are ensuring sufficient social distancing in our space and also so that we can clearly communicate this message.

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The we want to reduce the risk of as we go about the things that we need to still do every day as we comply with the shelter-in-place order that we continue to reduce the transmission of the novel coronavirus in our community. I want to be clear that we are not recommending that people, utilize, surgical masks and medical masks such as n95 or surgical masks. What we are recommending is that people use other types of face coverings. These masks, as we know, are in short supply across the country.

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We need to preserve the the available inventory of these masks for our healthcare workers, who are serving on the front line. What we are recommending is that individuals use other types of face coverings using homemade materials. This face covering was made by a nine-year-old. This one was made by a professional quilter. Additionally, you can use other types of face coverings, bandanas other types of cloths, a scarf anything that can secure around your nose and mouth and be tied around your face to secure coverage and to minimize the transmission of droplets in our community.

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As you are using these face coverings, we encourage you to wash them frequently with hot water and on a hot dry cycle to ensure that they are adequately cleaned for repeated use. We also, in addition, are recommending and reminding everybody that, while you are wearing a face covering we, you must still continue to maintain sufficient distance ensuring six feet apart of distance from one another, as you are participating in your activities out in the public.

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We want to continue to urge- and we thank you for your following the shelter in place, order to stay home as much as possible to limit your contacts with others, the more we can reduce the number of contacts that we have with other individuals during the day, the more we can slow the spread of the virus, the face coverings that cover your nose and mouth from homemade fabrics and other materials will also ensure that, while you are out that that transmission is also reduced, we are all in this together and we thank you for your continued support and participation in protecting the health of our entire communities.

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Together, we will continue to provide updated information on our website. Sec, PhD, org, slash coronavirus there. You will find resources, guidance for individuals into increased information about the new orders, filter and place orders, as well as our updated dashboards that provide information on cases in our laboratory testing and our hospital capacity. The County of Santa Clara continues to actively respond and plan to coronavirus, spread in our community. We want to ensure the health and safety of all. Thank you very much.

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For the latest information regarding the Cova 19 pandemic in Cupertino, please visit Cupertino org, slash coronavirus.