{"id":7226,"date":"2020-11-24T14:33:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T19:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/?p=7226"},"modified":"2022-11-22T17:35:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:35:54","slug":"health-warning-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/news-archive\/health-warning-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Missouri issues public health warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State of Missouri has issued a Public Health Warning regarding COVID-19, which includes an advisory for businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The warning states that Missouri officials continue to take a balanced approach, but if Missourians do not slow the spread of the virus, we risk having our health care systems overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do\u00a0<u>not<\/u> need to lockdown our communities if people do the right things to fight the spread of the virus,&#8221; the warning reads.<\/p>\n<p>The advice for businesses reads as follows.<\/p>\n<p>All businesses are advised to implement basic infection prevention measures informed by industry best practices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Modify physical workspaces to maximize and maintain social distancing.<\/li>\n<li>Develop an infectious disease preparedness and response plan, including policies and procedures for workforce contact tracing when an employee tests positive for COVID-19.<\/li>\n<li>Monitor workforce for indicative symptoms. Symptomatic people should not physically return to work until cleared by a medical provider.<\/li>\n<li>Develop, implement, and communicate about workplace flexibilities and protections, including:\n<ul>\n<li>Encouraging telework whenever possible and feasible with business operations;<\/li>\n<li>Working in phases and\/or split shifts, if possible;<\/li>\n<li>Limiting access to common areas where personnel are likely to congregate and interact; and<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring that sick leave policies are flexible and consistent with public health guidance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/health.mo.gov\">Read the full advisory.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State of Missouri has issued a Public Health Warning regarding COVID-19, which includes an advisory for businesses. The warning states that Missouri officials continue to take a balanced approach, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":7227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/article-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28353,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions\/28353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}