Midmorning With Aundrea 3/17/20 - Coronavirus Special (Part 1)

(Part 1 of 2) Today, Aundrea focuses entirely on information you need to know concerning the coronavirus outbreak.

Dr. Crystal Tate from the Mississippi Department of Health joins us to talk about the necessity of good personal hygiene during the outbreak.

And MSU Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Regina Hyatt discusses the move to online classes and usage of social media to disseminate useful information.

And we explore how to talk about the coronavirus with your children without alarming them.

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From precautions to take to resources available to you.

We will spend the next half hour talking to experts in a number of fields.... giving you important information about the coronavirus.

Midmorning starts right now.

Good morning.

For the next 30 minutes we want to focus on information in our communities that will help you navigate the weeks ahead.

Our schools are closed.

We are being asked to stay away from large groups and to stay home if we feel sick.

That's because of the covid-19.

You probably know this by its other name - the coronavirus.

This is a respiratory virus that causes flu- like illness ranging from mild to severe, with symptoms of fever, coughing, fatigue and difficulty breathing.

Dr. crystal tate is the regional health officer for the northern public health region of mississippi.

She is here this morning with some advice from the state health department.

Covid-19 hotline: 877-978-6453 avoid gatherings of 250 people or more, especially if there is evidence advice from the state health department.

Covid-19 hotline: 877-978-6453 avoid gatherings of 250 people or more, especially if there is evidence of transmission in your county or adjacent counties .

If you do attend, remember to practice the hygiene and distancing steps above.

To prevent illness in those most vulnerable, anyone 65 or older or with a chronic medical condition should avoid any gathering of 250 people or more .

Avoid unnecessary air, bus or train travel.

Limit visitation to older relatives or friends .

Prepare for the possibility that schools or day care centers may temporarily close.

For people at high risk do not attend gatherings of more than 250 people.

Keep more space between you and others as you go through the day.

Avoid crowds.

When you do go out in public, keep away from others who are sick and limit close contact.

Wash your hands often, especially after being in public places.

If covid-19 begins to spread locally, you should stay home as much as possible.

Having a supply of important good morning.

For the next 30 minutes we want to focus on information in our communities that will help you navigate the weeks ahead.

Our schools are closed.

We are being asked to stay away from large groups and to stay home if we feel sick.

That's because of the covid-19.

You probably know this by its other name - the coronavirus.

This is a respiratory virus that causes flu- like illness ranging from mild to severe, with symptoms of fever, coughing, fatigue and difficulty breathing.

Dr. crystal tate is the regional health officer for the northern public health region of mississippi.

She is here this morning with some advice from the state health department.

Covid-19 hotline: 877-978-6453 avoid gatherings of 250 people or more, especially if there is evidence of transmission in your county or adjacent counties .

If you do attend, remember to practice the hygiene and distancing steps above.

To prevent illness in those most vulnerable, anyone 65 or older or with a chronic medical condition should avoid any gathering of 250 people or more .

Avoid unnecessary air, bus or train travel.

Limit visitation to older relatives or friends .

Prepare for the possibility that schools or day care centers may temporarily close.

For people at high risk do not attend gatherings of more than 250 people.

Keep more space between you and others as you go through the day.

Avoid crowds.

When you do go out in public, keep away from others who are sick and limit close colleges and universities are moving online.

We'll explain why.

And give you tips on how to get the most out of distance learning next mi mississippi's college and mississippi's college and universities have extended spring break.

And instructors across all disciplines are working on structuring their classes online.

Dr. regina young hyatt is the vice president for student affairs at mississippi state university.

Dr. hyatt is always active on social media, even more so now as you are sharing information with faculty and students.

Steven pace >> is on 23 march threat all courses will be made for us students is still stands on and you cells is where the root possibly in the restaurant a lot of you already already with the raven that respect in the elderly to this day all work and online portal for student to have easy access to it as him as they have internet capability for those who for any reason need to get back on its brand and its from this happen there was the first were telling students that they need to return to the resident so to retrieve the items that they are they are able to do that there is a time so few that need to stress tolerance is the home for some student leader are international may not build to return to the countries so we have it set up where students who need to sell campus can let us know that you will that you are stay home since the age of which tried to be as accommodating as possible for any student and there is a large population of students due to us who live at all campus residences those situations are being read managed individually by their apartment complexes but as of now we haven't heard anything from them being half right now we have f for students who thinks such is life.

I library services are the white for our library's computers and the large national life hotspot is the cafeteria for me is that every day to work late now we will do is recent ready for influx of student to take advantage of this is to stay there friday was taken caught actions by pre-packaging that it is household goods personal height i may also etc.

They just build the intrigue of the bugging some of the students many financial assistance to what are they gonna do it for student relief on active students can make a bus to that but now by simply emailing the os and state email that is information about financial for case-by- case basis as they request and as we are able that fun is what it for private gifts so you don't have an unlimited amount available but we deftly want to see the students that need it please contact us should all be a comfort to student.

Student information is to affect your office for more information on the vice is is the most up-to-date information for students for faculty and staff from the context we have a hotline number that i like to share today it is 662325 it is 66232555662-325-55 ... and that number will be 662325 662-325-55 d dr. regina had