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States, territories, and counties that issued a stay-at-home order in 2020. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
- What Is Quarantine?
- History and Uses of Quarantine
- How Quarantine Helps Prevent Outbreaks
- How Quarantine Is Enforced
Quarantine is the restriction of the movement of well persons exposed to infection to prevent them from infecting others, including family members, friends and neighbors. It is different from "isolation" which refers to restrictions placed on persons who actually show signs and symptoms of infection with a contagious disease. Quarantine can also re...
The term originally referred to the 40 days of offshore wait during which incoming vessels could not discharge passengers or cargo in the distant past era when the plague and other great epidemics swept across Europe. In fact, some nations still maintain extended periods of quarantine for cattle and household pets coming from another country to gua...
Whether it is naturally occurring or intentionally caused preventing an outbreak requires the use of the most rapid and effective public health tools available. These tools include basic public health practices such as disease reporting, referred to above, and identification and notification of contacts who may have been exposed to a communicable d...
Quarantine may be enforced by law in Alabama as in most states; however the most effective way to control quarantinable diseases is to have the voluntary cooperation of exposed or infected people. In fact, in mass disease outbreaks, involuntary quarantine would be very difficult to enforce. Voluntary quarantine was used effectively in Toronto, Cana...
Jul 29, 2020 · Methods. Google's COVID‐19 Community Mobility Reports present state‐specific information about trends in Google users’ locations over time (Google, 2020).We merged these data with information on the date of enactment of stay‐at‐home orders in order to compare visits to various types of destinations in states that had and had not implemented stay‐at‐home orders by March 29, 2020 ...
- Grant D. Jacobsen, Kathryn H. Jacobsen
- 2020
Dec 28, 2021 · If symptoms occur, individuals should immediately quarantine until a negative test confirms their symptoms are not attributable to COVID-19. In the past week, the percent positivity in COVID-19 tests in Alabama has more than doubled to 22.1 percent with new cases doubling, and all but six counties in high level of community transmission.
Oct 25, 2021 · Provided by the Office of the Governor of Alabama | governor.alabama.gov. X. Alabama the Beautiful
May 3, 2021 · By. Mike Cason | mcason@al.com. Gov. Kay Ivey announced today that Alabama’s state of emergency related to the COVID pandemic will end July 6 and her public health order from the COVID-19 ...
Apr 8, 2021 · 0:04. 1:27. Alabama will be under a "Safer Apart Order" beginning Friday, Gov. Kay Ivey announced Wednesday, as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the state continue to drop significantly. The ...