One of my top priorities is to work on urgency legislation to support our health systems, schools, individuals, businesses and nonprofits impacted by COVID-19.\u00a0I encourage you to\u00a0<\/strong>contact my office<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and let us know how you’re being affected. We want to ensure we’re covering all angles of assistance.<\/strong><\/p>\n I also encourage you to read up on how to help\u00a0Flatten the Curve<\/a>. We can each take specific actions to help reduce the burden on our healthcare systems, by practicing social distancing and applying routine hygiene like washing our hands.<\/p>\n Additionally, I understand there are significant concerns surrounding the ability to get tested. Currently OC Health is testing\u00a0in accordance to CDC guidance<\/a>, while private labs are testing through doctor referral. If you believe you have COVID-19 symptoms, please speak to your healthcare provider via phone for a consultation.<\/p>\n Defeating this outbreak requires all of us in partnership to commit to following CDC and local guidelines. Until we have a vaccine, we need to all work together. Our choices and behaviors can have a real positive impact on the health of our community.<\/p>\n ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE FROM THE STATE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n On March 17, the Governor held a press conference\u00a0to update state guidance on COVID-19<\/a>, including the following:<\/p>\n We encourage constituents to follow these guidelines, to help flatten the curve.<\/p>\n ADDITIONAL STEPS TO TAKE:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n CDPH Guidance page:\u00a0https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/ OC Public Health Agency:\u00a0http:\/\/www. FURTHER UPDATES<\/strong><\/p>\n My office is updating on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and daily.<\/p>\n As your Assemblymember, I am working closely with the administration, local health authorities, school districts and local businesses to ensure that we are responding together to prevent and address risks associated with coronavirus. If you have questions or need more information, do not hesitate to contact my office\u00a0https:\/\/a74.asmdc.org\/ Yours faithfully, Cottie Petrie-Norris Coronavirus is the top headline in...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22748,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747\/revisions\/22748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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