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BE PREPARED snacks, and water care. The Shelter provides •Medically necessary
continued from page 13 • Blankets, sturdy shoes, a safe, secure environment equipment that uses
many changes of clothes but does not take the place of electricity
You Might Be • Radio, phones, batteries, hospitals, assisted living, or •Recent, but stable cardiac
long-term care facilities.
Interested to chargers and cables conditions
Know • First aid supplies, medicine, The Health Department •People with diabetes on
manages the Special Needs
Every state agency is prescriptions, and medical Shelter in coordination insulin
responsible for some part of equipment with the School District, •Feeding tubes
emergency response and the • Important documents, Emergency Management, •Foley catheter or ostomy
Department of Health’s role account numbers, and some health care providers, home
is to coordinate health and cash health agencies, hospitals, •Wound care and dressing
medical response. The means EMS, law enforcement, changes
we plan for emergencies Special Needs medical equipment and •Alzheimer’s and Dementia
with Hernando County Shelter oxygen suppliers, and
Emergency Management, When a major emergency or assisted living and skilled •Communicable diseases or
infections
the School District, law disaster threatens Hernando nursing facilities.
enforcement, fire rescue, •People on Dialysis
health care providers, power County, residents who The Special Need To Register for Special
companies, and agencies that depend on certain medical Shelter May be Needs
care, oxygen, and equipment
serve residents with extra may need to seek shelter. Right for You
needs. Call: 352-754-4083
The Special Needs Shelter Certain conditions & needs
7 Days of Supplies provides care to people can be met at the shelter: Fax: 352-754-4090
For Your ReadyKit who have serious medical •Chronic respiratory Click: http://www.
conditions that require HernandoCounty.us/em/
• Non-perishable food, observation, assessment, or conditions requiring oxygen, specialneeds
nebulizers, and sleep apnea
Sweaty Face Mask? 5 Tips to Keep Cool While Covered Up
Staying safe and comfortable as temperatures rise
by Andy Markowitz, Gregory Poland, a physician check. let-blocking impermeability.
AARP and vaccine researcher at the 1. Choose the right fabric The “sweet spot,” he says, is
Mayo Clinic. “There’s a rea- a two-layer mask made from
With health authorities con- son for that.” A light, breathable material a cotton T-shirt, which comes
tinuing to urge face-covering like cotton will likely keep close to matching a surgical
in public to curb the spread of Keeping your face covered your face cooler than medical mask’s efficiency in stopping
COVID-19, we’ve become fa- when venturing outside the and N95 masks made from potentially infectious droplets
miliar with the minor irritants home remains a crucial weap- synthetic materials, and in from coughs and sneezes and
of wearing masks: chafed on in the fight against the the right configuration can be is about twice as breathable.
ears, foggy glasses, snapped coronavirus, recommended effective in preventing conta-
straps. The arrival of summer by the Centers for Disease gion, according to new re- All-cotton tested best, but up
takes the potential discomfort Control and Prevention search by Taher Saif, a profes- to 40 percent polyester will do
up a notch, trapping sweat and (CDC) and mandated by sor of mechanical science and the job, Saif says. “I’m not a
heat under our facial sheaths. some state and local govern- engineering at the University cloth expert. I just buy things
ments. from Walmart and Target,” he
“As physicians, when we of Illinois. adds with a laugh. “Our study
are wearing masks for long Fortunately, there are ways Saif’s team tested 10 com- showed that if you have these
periods of time, for example to stay cool or, at least, cool- mon fabrics, from 100 per- layers on top of your mouth
in surgery or during a proce- er while masked up. Here cent cotton to polyester and and nose, you don’t have to
dure, you’ll notice we keep are five tips from experts for silk blends, to see which best have an official mask where
the rooms what patients call more comfortably keeping balance comfort and drop-
‘uncomfortably cold,’” says your respiratory droplets in Continued on page 23
