COVID-19 Information

Wisconsin

*NEW* Emergency Order #01 - Relating to preventing the spread of COVID-19 by requiring face coverings in certain situations (effective August 1, 2020)
*NEW* 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)

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.

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.