Tag: stay at home orders

Several states have yet to issue stay-at-home orders

The Hill logoTwelve states have yet to issue stay-at-home orders to their residents despite a rising number of coronavirus cases and deaths across the country.

The number of states that have yet to impose strict recommendations on people to stay at home is steadily decreasing, and those not doing so are likely to come under heavy pressure in the wake of new estimates from the Trump administration that as many as 240,000 people could die from the coronavirus even with heavy social distancing.

Every state has imposed at least some restrictions, such as making all restaurants switch to takeout or delivery only, banning large gatherings, and closing schools. And some states have issued stay-at-home orders for affected regions or the most vulnerable populations.

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a statewide state-at-home order on Wednesday after coming under heavy pressure for days. Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf also expanded a stay-at-home order to the entire state after initially limiting it to certain counties. Continue reading.

Go grocery shopping every two weeks? You can — and without hoarding.

Washington Post logoAmong the essential activities allowed during mandatory stay-at-home orders caused by the coronavirus pandemic is grocery shopping, but most experts agree that residents should cut back on the number of trips they make to the store as part of their social-distancing strategy.

One key to doing that is to create a list of essentials and stick to it, said Joanna Michalowska, a dietitian and doctoral candidate from the Medical University of Poznan in Poland, who worked with a team of health professionals there to create a tool — the Omni Food Calculator — designed to help people understand how much food they need for a two-week period.

“When something like this happens, we don’t know what’s going on, how to behave,” Michalowska said. Continue reading.