{"id":197472,"date":"2020-04-24T14:55:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T19:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=197472"},"modified":"2020-04-27T07:29:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T12:29:18","slug":"stutsman-covid-19-response-meeting-apr-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=197472","title":{"rendered":"Fri Public Health Briefing CSi TV 10 &#038; Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Central Valley Health District,\u00a0 hosted the\u00a0 Stutsman County \u00a0COVID-19 Response news briefing on Friday April 24 at 2:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting airs live with replays on CSi TV 10 -The Replay Channel &amp; CSi 67.\u00a0 \u00a0To view the briefing online, view it here at <a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\">CSiNewsNOW.com<\/a> or go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thereplaychannel\">CSi LiveStream at Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheReplayChannel%2Fvideos%2F235054997580970%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=450\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Presenters will include:\u00a0 Central Valley Health District, Jamestown Regional Medical Center, and Sanford Health in Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Central Valley Health District, Administrator, Robin Iszler said, as of Friday Stutsman County had three positive tests, (ss of Sunday, April 26, there have been four positive cases of COVID-19 in Stutsman County and she anticipates more positives will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>She reminded everybody to continue to practice safe measures such has social distancing frequent hand washing with soap and water, don\u2019t touch your face or nose, and wear masks in public.<\/p>\n<p>She said there are no planned driving testing events in Stutsman County.<\/p>\n<p>She added that mail including packages is safe to handle, use a sanitary wipe if you feel more comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota State Health Department\u2019s Jennifer Schmitz said a person testing positive will be called and asked a series of questions to trace their pervious whereabouts, and close contacts when they were contagious, and offer support and check on their health status.\u00a0 A close contact is being with 12 feet of a COVID-19 positive person, for 15 continuous minutes. Isolation will be discussed and the period of time.\u00a0 Those violating isolation, or quarantine orders are subject to penalty of law including fines, and possible jail time.<\/p>\n<p>JRMC President, Mike Delfs said, they have performed 93 tests for \u00a0COVID-19 as of Friday afternoon. Those showing symptoms of the virus are tested, based on CDC guidelines.\u00a0 ER tests are sent to the North Dakota state lab, with results within 48 hours.\u00a0 He said JRMC is seeing post-surgical patients.\u00a0 Urgent and emergency surgeries are still being performed.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked the community for donated face masks, and observing social distancing.<\/p>\n<p>Sanford Health:\u00a0 \u00a0Dr.Sarah Schatz said currently Sanford is testing for COVID-19 with individuals who show symptoms.\u00a0 If a person is sick stay home, and visit the NDDoH website for more information.\u00a0\u00a0 If an individual has symptoms they want to be seen for, over the weekend, to call the JRMC Emergency Department, ahead of time, so the staff can prepare.<\/p>\n<p>Test results are typically available in about 24-48 hours, and are sent to Sanford in Sioux Falls, SD. \u00a0Positives will be called, otherwise see results on the Sanford\u00a0 \u201cMy Chart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanford in Jamestown has, as of Friday, made about 250 COVID-19 tests, averaging about\u00a0 10-20 per day.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting airs live with replays on CSi TV 10 -The Replay Channel &amp; CSi 67.\u00a0 \u00a0To view the briefing online, view it here at <a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\">CSiNewsNOW.com<\/a> or go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thereplaychannel\">CSi LiveStream at Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Central Valley Health District,\u00a0 hosted the\u00a0 Stutsman County \u00a0COVID-19 Response news briefing on Friday April 24 at 2:30pm. The meeting airs live with replays on CSi TV 10 -The Replay Channel &amp; CSi 67.\u00a0 \u00a0To view the briefing online, view it here at CSiNewsNOW.com or go to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":196488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197472"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197739,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197472\/revisions\/197739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}