{"id":95006,"date":"2020-08-04T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=95006"},"modified":"2020-08-04T15:02:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:02:20","slug":"statewide-isolation-order-issued-for-mississippians-diagnosed-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/statewide-isolation-order-issued-for-mississippians-diagnosed-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Statewide Isolation Order Issued for Mississippians Diagnosed with COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>Mississippi State Health Officer<\/strong> <strong>Thomas Dobbs<\/strong> MD, MPH, issued a statewide order for the Isolation of Individuals Diagnosed with <strong>COVID-19<\/strong> effective immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Order \u2013 issued to everyone living in <strong>Mississippi <\/strong>\u2013 stipulates that anyone diagnosed with COVID-19 must immediately isolate at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dobbs explains, \u201cWe have a lot of COVID activity throughout the state right now, so it is absolutely critical that anyone infected with COVID-19, and not hospitalized, must remain in the home or other appropriate residential location for 14 days from onset of illness (or from the date of a positive test for those who are asymptomatic).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The failure or refusal to obey the lawful order of a health officer is, at a minimum, a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $500.00 (41-3-59) or imprisonment for six months or both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a life-threatening disease is involved, failure or refusal to obey the lawful order of a health officer is a felony, punishable by a fine of up to $5,000.00 or imprisonment for up to five years or both (41-23-2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persons infected with COVID-19 should limit exposure to household contacts. No visitors should be allowed in the home. Please stay in a specific room away from others in your home. Use a separate bathroom if available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need to be around others in your home, you should wear a facemask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please see\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDAsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDA4MDQuMjUyNjkwMzEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5jZGMuZ292L2Nvcm9uYXZpcnVzLzIwMTktbmNvdi9oY3AvZ3VpZGFuY2UtcHJldmVudC1zcHJlYWQuaHRtbCJ9.4L_la8FFaSLhcddNc5hrptimVORRdSQgAbGW4FmSjWs\/s\/1126202484\/br\/81880622578-l\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/hcp\/guidance-prevent-spread.html<\/a>\u00a0for guidance on preventing transmission in the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mississippi State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs MD, MPH, issued a statewide order for the Isolation of Individuals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":95007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16346],"tags":[16052,16842,16840,16843,5,16628,16841,16472],"class_list":["post-95006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","tag-covid-19","tag-emergency-order","tag-health-officer","tag-misdemeanor","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-state-health-officer","tag-order","tag-thomas-dobbs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MGN_1280x720_00330C00-IFABS.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}