COViD-19 Info & Resources

COVID 19 is here.  If you are sick or caring for some who is sick what should you do? Check this link.

Download Care19 app for iPhone and Android – or start a Contact Journal. This is a document of Where you have been, when you were there, and who you had close contact. This will help Public Health to contact those that may be exposed if you test positive. A close contact is someone who you are within 6ft or less of that person for 15 minutes or more. By following social distancing your list should be very short. This helps slow the spread. Keep that list short. Continue to Wash those hands, cover your coughs, stay home when your sick and follow the public health guidelines. For more information: Call Southwestern District Health Unit at 701-483-0171.

Did someone at your workplace test positive? Find out here how to disinfect your building.

ND Health care providers, local public health units and pharmacies have been told they can move to Phase 1B when they’re ready. Some may still be working through Phase 1A, comprised of frontline health care workers, first responders and long-term care residents and staff. Below are the following phases.

• • Phase 1B (in order of priority):
    • Persons age 75 and older
    • Persons age 65 – 74 with two or more high-risk medical conditions
    • Staff and persons living in other congregate settings (i.e., corrections, group homes, treatment centers, homeless shelters, etc.)
    • Persons age 65 and older with one or more high-risk medical conditions
    • Persons age 65 and older with or without high-risk medical conditions
    • Persons with two or more high-risk medical conditions regardless of age
    • Child care workers
    • Workers employed by preschools or Kindergarten through 12th grade: Teachers, nutritional services, aides, bus drivers, principals, administrative staff, custodians, etc.
  • Phase 1C (in order of priority):
    • North Dakota National Guard, not previously covered
    • Grocery Workers
    • Public safety answering points (911)
    • Manufacturing related to the development or supply of COVID-19 vaccine
    • Other health care/public health workers not included in phase 1A
    • Free standing clinical laundries
    • Public transit, including bus, taxi, ride-share
    • Persons age 16 – 64 with one or more high-risk medical conditions
    • Blood bank workers not previously vaccinated
    • Information technology
    • All other essential workers per Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
    • How individuals to find vaccine in their area. More information can be found at nd.gov/covidvaccinelocator. Individuals can search by providers in their area and see which provider group they’re serving.

If you cannot find the answers to your questions in the links below:
Cornonavirus information: Public Health hotline number 1-866-207-2880
Local Information: Bowman County Information Line 523-5591 (M-Th 8-4 and F 8-12)