Marin County Public Health sends out Health Alerts, Advisories, and Updates to Marin County clinicians, via email, regarding communicable disease outbreaks, immunization updates, and emerging infectious diseases.
Urgency Level Categories
Alert: Conveys the highest level of importance; warrants immediate action or attention.
Advisory: Provides important information for specific incident or situation; may not require immediate action.
Update: Provides updated information regarding an incident or situation; unlikely to require immediate action.
Order: Legal mandates to protect human health.
Current Health Alerts, Advisories, Updates
Cleaning regularly touched surfaces is an important way to protect against COVID-19 infection. Current evidence suggests that the virus may remain infectious for hours to days on surfaces made from a variety of materials. Marin County Public Health and Marin County Environmental Health Services is providing this information to guide the cleaning and disinfection of common areas in non-medical facilities in the community, such as schools, offices, daycare centers, businesses, community centers that do not house persons overnight.