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Testing for COVID-19

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Testing helps public health officials, health care providers and laboratories determine who has COVID-19. This is important to help guide infected people to appropriate treatment, as well as to reduce forward transmission.<a href="/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Testing.aspx" style="text-decoration:underline;">OTC Testing for COVID-19</a>

https://www.cdc.gov/covid/testing/index.html, Read the CDC Guidance

Requirements for Health Care Facilities (AFL)

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Requirements for Health Care Facilities (AFL)

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View a comprehensive list of All Facility Letters (AFLs), which include new health care requirements and guidance for health care facilities, including long-term care facilities.

http://cdph-default/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/Pages/LNCAFL.aspx, Get AFLs

Pregnant & Nursing Mothers

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Pregnant & Nursing Mothers

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Pregnant women might be at an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19 and nursing mothers should take precautions. Learn more about getting vaccinated during your pregnancy.

http://cdph-default/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/COVID-19-Vaccine-and-Pregnancy.pdf, Read the Vaccination Flyer

Hospital and Health Care System Surge

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Hospital and Health Care System Surge

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As COVID-19 hospitalizations increase, the state has issued a Public Health Order governing health care system protocols and surge capacity. <span data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun BCX0 SCXW35482176" style="alignment-baseline:auto;backface-visibility:visible;baseline-shift:0px;border-color:#000000;border-collapse:separate;border-width:0px;border-style:none;border-spacing:0px;border-radius:0px;box-shadow:none;box-sizing:content-box;caption-side:top;clear:none;clip:auto;clip-path:none;clip-rule:nonzero;color:#000000;color-interpolation:srgb;color-interpolation-filters:linearrgb;color-rendering:auto;columns:auto auto;column-fill:balance;column-rule:0px none #000000;column-span:none;counter-increment:none;counter-reset:none;cursor:text;direction:ltr;display:inline;dominant-baseline:auto;empty-cells:show;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:nonzero;flex:0 1 auto;flex-flow:row nowrap;float:none;flood-color:#000000;flood-opacity:1;font-family:wordvisi_msfontservice, calibri, calibri_embeddedfont, calibri_msfontservice, sans-serif;font-feature-settings:normal;font-size:14.6667px;height:auto;image-rendering:auto;lighting-color:#ffffff;line-height:19.425px;list-style:outside none disc;margin:0px;mask:none;max-height:none;max-width:none;min-height:0px;min-width:0px;opacity:1;order:0;outline:#000000 none 0px;overflow:visible;padding:0px;perspective:none;perspective-origin:0px 0px;pointer-events:auto;ruby-position:over;shape-rendering:auto;speak:normal;stop-color:#000000;stop-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:0px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-opacity:1;stroke-width:1px;table-layout:auto;text-align-last:auto;text-anchor:start;text-decoration-style:solid;text-decoration-color:#000000;text-overflow:clip;text-rendering:auto;text-shadow:none;text-underline-position:auto;transform-origin:0px 0px;transform-style:flat;transition:all 0s ease 0s;unicode-bidi:normal;vertical-align:baseline;visibility:visible;width:auto;word-break:normal;writing-mode:horizontal-tb;z-index:auto;zoom:1;"><span data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun SCXW69305904 BCX0" style="alignment-baseline:auto;backface-visibility:visible;baseline-shift:0px;border-color:#000000;border-collapse:separate;border-width:0px;border-style:none;border-spacing:0px;border-radius:0px;box-shadow:none;box-sizing:content-box;caption-side:top;clear:none;clip:auto;clip-path:none;clip-rule:nonzero;color:#000000;color-interpolation:srgb;color-interpolation-filters:linearrgb;color-rendering:auto;columns:auto auto;column-fill:balance;column-rule:0px none #000000;column-span:none;counter-increment:none;counter-reset:none;cursor:text;direction:ltr;display:inline;dominant-baseline:auto;empty-cells:show;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:nonzero;flex:0 1 auto;flex-flow:row nowrap;float:none;flood-color:#000000;flood-opacity:1;font-family:wordvisi_msfontservice, calibri, calibri_embeddedfont, calibri_msfontservice, sans-serif;font-feature-settings:normal;font-size:14.6667px;height:auto;image-rendering:auto;lighting-color:#ffffff;line-height:19.425px;list-style:outside none disc;margin:0px;mask:none;max-height:none;max-width:none;min-height:0px;min-width:0px;opacity:1;order:0;outline:#000000 none 0px;overflow:visible;padding:0px;perspective:none;perspective-origin:0px 0px;pointer-events:auto;ruby-position:over;shape-rendering:auto;speak:normal;stop-color:#000000;stop-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:0px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-opacity:1;stroke-width:1px;table-layout:auto;text-align-last:auto;text-anchor:start;text-decoration-style:solid;text-decoration-color:#000000;text-overflow:clip;text-rendering:auto;text-shadow:none;text-underline-position:auto;transform-origin:0px 0px;transform-style:flat;transition:all 0s ease 0s;unicode-bidi:normal;vertical-align:baseline;visibility:visible;width:auto;word-break:normal;writing-mode:horizontal-tb;z-index:auto;zoom:1;"><a href="/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Regional-ICU-Capacity.aspx">See Regional ICU Capacity Numbers</a>

http://cdph-default/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Order-of-the-State-Public-Health-Officer-Hospital-and-Health-Care-System-Surge.aspx, Read the Order

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