Health Dept clarifies isolation, quarantine differences
Health care providers are instructing their patients who present with COVID-19 symptoms to self-quarantine.
Not everyone who has symptoms needs to be tested, according to the health department. Testing guidelines are set by the Indiana State Department of Health and must be followed.
However, testing does not change the treatment. You may be asked to isolate or quarantine yourself. STAY HOME. Practice social distancing and good hand hygiene. Follow up with your health care provider if symptoms get worse.
The difference between isolation and quarantine.
Isolation is for individuals who are ill.
-Separate people who are ill and contagious from healthy individuals.
-Restrict movement of people who are contagious to stop the spread of illness.
Quarantine is for individuals who have been exposed but not ill.
– This applies to the separation and restriction of movement of individuals who are not ill but have been exposed to a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of illness.
As of April 2, at 8 a.m., there were no new reported positive COVID-19 cases of Dubois County residents. Dubois County currently has three positive cases.
I am, like most resident, sick of reading and hearing about people that have no symptoms being tested and then being told by our County Health Department that we don’t need to be tested even if we have symptoms.
What is good enough for the rich and famous is good enough for us.
How do we know if we don’t have covid-19 if we don’t get tested? We might have some symptoms but not all and still don’t get tested for that. There might be a few already with covid and we don’t even know.
You need to test EVERYONE that requests it. You are not reporting accurate data. You are controlling the info. Sad when someone is turned down in Dubois co and go to Eville and test positive
How on earth can they say only 3 cases in Dubois, none in Martin or Daviess??? It is a false number. People have been hospitalized for this when diagnosed with CT scans/x-rays yet they don’t count???? If not hospitalized, sent home to quarantine! The CDC and board of health needs to stop sugar coating this so the community truly understands the dangers!!!!!!
I had no fever and that is one of the requirements to be tested. My symptoms started with a runny nose then severe fatigue, stuffy head so I thought a bad cold. Then my breathing became more and more labored and felt like heavy pressure on my chest, I hurt all over but I had been reading wear people with more symptoms and scans to boot weren’t being tested in Dubois County I thought what is the use for me to try. SAD!!! I am still having the chest pressure but all other symptoms are finally going away after about 3 weeks. So I really think more people have this virus than what is being shared with the public.
Oh plus a dry cough and that too I still have after 3 weeks.
I received an interesting email from Dennis Murphy, President of IU Health today.
I’m a patient of several Physicians at IU Health.
He addressed the issue of testing for the COVID-19 virus. He says “public testing is not available at this time because testing resources are limited.” He goes on to say “to make sure that tests are available for those most in need, we are focusing on high-risk, seriously ill patients and health care workers who may have come in contact with the virus. This approach matches the guidelines set by the CDC and Protection and the ISDH.”
I believe we’ve been told Memorial hospital and the Dubois county Health department has been following the same guidelines. But I don’t think the guidelines have been explained in this way.
It’s interesting people say they can’t get tested in Dubois county but they can in Evansville? It makes me wonder why?
The testing process can be frustrating.
But I can’t help but think about the lack of toilet paper and all the empty grocery shelves. Can you imagine the hoarders being able to get tested anytime they want?