For Patients and Families

For Patients and Families

About COVID-19

• Understanding COVID-19
  • Translations: Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese
• Don’t Kid with COVID: What Is COVID-19?
  • Translations:  Hmong, Karen, Somali, Spanish
• Don’t Kid with COVID: What to Do When Sick
  • Translations: Hmong, Karen, Somali, Spanish

Preventing and Treating COVID-19

• Preventing the Spread of COVID-19
  • Translations: Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese
  • Alternate content: English, Somali
• Making a Cloth Face Mask
  • Translations: Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese
• Do’s and Don’ts of Masking
  • Translations: Hmong, Karen, Somali, Spanish
• COVID-19 and Patients with Weakened Immune Systems
• Caring for Yourself or Others
  • Translations: Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese

Medicines

• ARB and ACE Inhibitors and COVID-19
• Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19
• Remdesivir and COVID-19

Testing for COVID-19

• How to Get Tested for COVID
• Testing Before Your Procedure or Admission
• Testing in the Hospital
• About Antibody Testing
  • Translations: Spanish
• Which Test Do I Need?
  • Translations: Hmong, Karen, Somali, Spanish

After a Hospital Stay

• Coping with Life after COVID-19 
• Coping with Post-ICU Syndrome (PICS)
• If Someone at Home Has COVID: Bringing Your Child Home from the Hospital
  • Translations: Hmong, Karen, Somali, Spanish

Babies and Children

• Talking to Your Child about COVID-19 
  • Translations: Spanish

• Pregnancy, Childbirth and COVID-19
  • Translations: Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese
• Going Home with a New Baby: When a Family Member Has COVID
  • Translations: Hmong, Karen, Somali, Spanish
• If Someone at Home Has COVID: Bringing Your Child Home from the Hospital
  • Translations: Hmong, Karen, Somali, Spanish

For Hospital Visitors

• Visiting a Loved One during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Videos

• FAQs about COVID (no English version)
  • Translations: Karen
• Human Coronaviruses
  • Translations: Spanish
• How COVID-19 Spreads
  • Translations: Spanish
• Symptoms of COVID-19 Infection
  • Translations: Spanish
• Simple Ways to Avoid COVID-19
• Dealing with the Stress of Self-Isolation
  • Translations: Spanish
• Caring for Someone Who Has COVID-19
  • Translations: Spanish
• Disinfecting Your Home of COVID-19
  • Translations: Spanish
• Keeping Kids Busy at Home
  • Translations: Spanish
• Coronavirus: How to Clean Your Hands
  • Translations: Spanish

American Sign Language videos

• COVID-19 PSA – Stay Safe Minnesota (ASL)
• Mask Do’s and Don’ts (ASL)
• Don’t Delay Care for Medical Emergencies (ASL)
• Social Distancing (ASL)
• Isolation/Quarantine (ASL)
• Mental Health (ASL)
• How to Wash Your Hands (ASL)
• Cleaning Hands with Hand Sanitizer (ASL)

More

• CDC Communication Toolkit: For Migrants, Refugees and Other Limited English Proficient Populations, 30 languages
• Harvard Health Publishing fact sheets, 35+ languages
• OCADU Health Design Studio (isolation, social distancing), 25+ languages