COVID-19 Information
Wisconsin
- *NEW* Emergency Order #03 - Limitnig public gatherings (effective October 8, 2020)
- Emergency Order #01 - Relating to preventing the spread of COVID-19 by requiring face coverings in certain situations (effective August 1, 2020)
- Executive Order #82 - Relating to the Declaring a Public Health Emergency (effective August 1, 2020)
- Emergency Order #8 - Public Health Madison & Dane County (effective July 13, 2020)
- Wisconsin Department of Health Services—What is Covid-19
- Wisconsin Department of Health Services—Disease Reporting
- Gov. Tony Evers Declares State of Health Emergency
- Gov. Tony Evers Issues Statewide K-12 School Closures (effective March 18, 2020)
- Gov. Tony Evers Mass Gathering Restrictions FAQ (March 17, 2020)
- Gov. Tony Evers to Issue Safer-At-Home order (March 23, 2020)
- Safer-At-Home Order (effective March 25, 2020)
- Ebling Library research guide (by UW Hospital)
- Dane County COVID-19 Dashboard launched by Public Health Madison/Dane County
- Emergency Order #2 Order of Public Health Madison & Dane County (May 19, 2020)
Miscellaneous
- Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)—Fighting Products (Center for Biocide Chemistries, American Chemistry Council)
- The Science of Soap – here's how it kills the coronavirus (by Pall Thordarson in The Guardian)
- Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents (Journal of Hospital Infection)
- Johns Hopkins University has developed an interactive web-based dashboard to visualize and track confirmed coronavirus cases in real-time. The dashboard illustrates the location and number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries for all affected countries. It was developed to provide researchers, public health authorities and the public with a user-friendly tool to keep tabs on the outbreak as it unfolds.
Resources for Children
- A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus by Malaka Gharib, Editor NPR. Download and print a comic book or a 3 min. Podcast for listening
- Brain Pop Coronavirus
- Helping Kids Navigate Scary News Stories (PBS)
*List of educational resources courtesy of the South Central Library System.