September 26, 2020                  Covid-19 Exposure Alert

September 26, 2020                  Covid-19 Exposure Alert

If you visited the BJ- Boonville Bowling Alley between the dates of 9/18/2020 and 9/24/2020 you may have been exposed to covid-19. They have had 2 employees test positive for covid-19. Please use our website to contact the Health Center for further information.

Go to https://coopercountypublichealth.com/   then click on contact. Your message will be confidential. Please submit your name, email, and under comments; your home address, phone number and add your information of which event you attended. We will have staff working over the weekend but anticipate busy phone lines. If you do not have access to the internet, please call 660-882-2626.

VERY IMPORTANT- To help reduce a potential local outbreak please follow the instructions below:

If you are experiencing even one symptom of the following, please seek medical care: if you are not feeling well, have sore throat, cough, headache, sinus pressure, nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, loss of smell taste, fever, chills, fatigue, diarrhea and backache please contact your physician for an order to seek out PCR nasal testing in Columbia at either MU, Boone Hospital or Urgent Care clinics. The PCR nasal swab test is better suited in this event due to the need to receive rapid results over the upcoming weekend.

CDC recommends all individuals get tested if they have been exposed to a known positive case.

Thank you very much,

Melanie Hutton RN, MSN

Administrator