SCC ICS COVID-19 Pandemic Team
Weekly COVID-19 Briefings with Chairman VanZile
ICS SCC COVID-19 Report
Do You Have Questions About the COVID-19 Vaccine?
The SCC Health Clinic has answers! Take a look at the most frequently asked questions and learn more about the vaccine.
Get even more information from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Community Information
Information on the status of COVID-19 has been moving and changing rapidly.
The Sokaogon Chippewa Community’s ICS Team is providing the community online links with real-time information regarding COVID-19 and the responses being made on a local, state, and national level. Our goal is to provide you with the best information possible as many changes occur, and often those changes take place before we can get the first message out to the public.
The SCC ICS Team is committed to providing streamlined information, and will keep the community informed as to any current updates as well as additional links to online information. The following are links grouped by scope of area.
Locally:
Sokaogon Chippewa Community – sokaogonchippewa.com
Sokaogon Chippewa Community’s Facebook page – facebook.com/sokaogon
Forest County Public Health – forestcountypublichealth.org
Crandon Area School District – sdofcrandon.com
State:
The Governor’s press releases – https://evers.wi.gov/Pages/Newsroom/Press-Releases.aspx
Department of Health Services (DHS) COVID-19 information – https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/
DHS media briefings – https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/outbreaks/
DHS media briefings on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/DHSWI/
Updates from other state agencies – https://wisconsin.gov/covid19
Wisconsin National Guard mission info – https://dma.wi.gov/DMA/
National:
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) COVID-19 – https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rumor control site – https://www.fema.gov/coronavirus-rumor-control
World data on COVID-19 by nation – https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
John Hopkins Resource Center real time data – https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
This SCC-ICS Community Announcement was approved by the ICS Incident Commander on 3/26/2020 at 3:30 pm.
What is the Coronavirus (COVID-19)?
From the CDC:
There are many types of human coronaviruses including some that commonly cause mild upper-respiratory tract illnesses. COVID-19 is a new disease, caused be a novel (or new) coronavirus that has not previously been seen in humans.
This virus was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. The first infections were linked to a live animal market, but the virus is now spreading from person-to-person.
It’s important to note that person-to-person spread can happen on a continuum.
The virus that causes COVID-19 seems to be spreading easily and sustainably in the community (“community spread”) in some affected geographic areas. Community spread means people have been infected with the virus in an area, including some who are not sure how or where they became infected.
Learn what is known about the spread of newly emerged coronaviruses.
Community Updates
Don’t Fall for COVID-19 Scams
As the number of people and communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic grows, so do the scams associated with it. Scammers use public health emergencies as opportunities for new fraud schemes, and because older adults are at greater risk for serious illness from COVID-19, they may target older populations.
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