****FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE****
May 8, 2020
Cattaraugus County Health Department was notified of its forty-seventh confirmed case of COVID-19. The reporting laboratory was Quest Erie Associated Clinical Laboratories, Derby, NY. This will increase the department's active positive COVID-19 caseload to sixteen.
The newest case is a female resident who resides in the northwest corner of the county, who is a healthcare worker at a group home, who developed cough, whole body aches, headache, and loss of both taste and smell. She was seen at Lakeshore Family Medicine on May 4th where she was tested for COVID-19. Her test results on May 6th indicated that she was positive for COVID-19.
The department has begun a thorough contact tracing investigation for those individuals that they have been in contact with and the places that they have visited.
We continue to ask our residents to hunker down, and avoid any non-essential travel, especially to areas where there is community wide spread of COVID-19 otherwise, you place your family and other Cattaraugus County residents at risk. If travel is necessary, please wear a homemade cloth face mask while in public and maintain social distancing, at least 6 feet away from other people.
We would like to reiterate that if any resident experience fever, cough, shortness of breath or whole body aches they should contact their health care provider (avoid going directly to an Urgent Care facility, or the Emergency Room before calling).
Finally, wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. This is especially important after using the bathroom, coughing, sneezing or blowing your nose.
If soap and water is not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains a minimum of 60% alcohol.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth, especially with unwashed hands.
Disinfect commonly touched surfaces with a cleaner that is approved by the EPA against COVID-19.
Please stay home if you are sick (at least 24 hours after fever ends.)
Finally, in an effort to determine the prevalence of the virus in our community, any resident interested in getting tested can register for a test or call 716-938-9119.
For continued updates visit us at CattCo.org/Coronavirus.
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