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By Maria Godoy and Allison Aubrey | NPR

By now, you've heard the advice that to slow the spread of coronavirus in the U.S., we need to practice social distancing. But if you're confused as to what that looks like in practice, you're not alone.

Public officials have come forward every day this week to repeat the call for "social distancing," and also to try to help explain what they mean.

On Monday, the White House announced new guidelines for the next two weeks, urging Americans to avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people, to avoid discretionary travel, shopping trips, or social visits, and not to go out to restaurants or bars.
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"What had the biggest impact in the model is social distancing, small groups, not going in public in large groups," Birx said at a White House press conference Monday.

Also critically important, said Birx, is a 14-day quarantine of any household where one person is infected with coronavirus. "That stopped 100 percent of transmission outside of the household" in models, she said.

The federal government is urging older people and those with serious underlying health conditions - like lung or heart conditions or a weakened immune system - to "stay home and away from other people," because data shows that these groups are most vulnerable to developing a severe form of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

"Every single generation has a role to play," Birx said Tuesday at a White House press conference. "We're asking our older generation to stay in their homes. We're asking the younger generations to stop going out in public places, to bars and restaurants, and spreading asymptomatic virus onto countertops and knobs."

'The White House is recommending limiting gatherings to no more than 10 people. Los Angeles County has prohibited gatherings of 50 or more people and has placed restrictions on "public and private events and gatherings of 10-49 persons."

Gov. Gavin Newsom tried to clarify on Tuesday: "That doesn't mean that within your own social set - your own family - that you can't have a barbecue. It doesn't mean you can't have a walk and use common sense in terms of getting your essential needs met with that walk, walking with intention to get food and get medicine and do the things you need to do."

But Orange County may have increased the uncertainty among local residents when it initially appeared to be giving outright "lockdown" or "shelter-in-place" orders, only to later walk it back.

L.A. County public health director Dr. Barbara Ferrer seemed to support something closer to Newsom's version on Wednesday. But the messaging is still this: if you are sick, stay home. If you must go out, keep your distance from other people - at least 6 feet. Certain "essential" activities are OK, like shopping for groceries or picking up food from restaurants (which are still allowed to operate, yes, just no dine-in service).

So what is and isn't OK in our new world of social distancing? Can I have people over or go visit grandma? Here's what the new CDC guidelines and other health experts have to say.

According to Monday's new guidelines, no - at least not for dining in. The CDC says people should use drive-through, pick-up or delivery options instead.

When you get home with your food, you could take it out of the containers, throw those out, and then wash your hands thoroughly before eating, says Drew Harris, a population health researcher at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. "We don't want to get too crazy about this, but taking reasonable precautions should be sufficient," he says.

Luckily, the food itself "is probably not a major risk factor here," Daniel Kuritzkes , an infectious disease expert at Brigham and Women's Hospital, That's because most infections from the new coronavirus appear to start with the respiratory system, not the digestive tract.

On a grassroots level, people are also urging folks to support their favorite local restaurants and retailers by buying gift certificates that they can use later.

The federal government is asking visitors to stay away from nursing homes, and retirement or long-term care facilities unless they're going to provide critical assistance.

This one is tough, because social isolation is already a problem for many of the elderly. But as Birx noted Monday, "we know there is a large group [of infected people] - we don't know the exact percent yet - that actually is asymptomatic or has such mild cases, they continue to spread the virus."

That includes children. A in the journal Pediatrics finds that 13% of children with confirmed cases of COVID-19 didn't show symptoms.

Of course, that can be tough for all involved, but now is the time to think about virtual visits with grandma - whether it's FaceTime calls or streaming movies that you all watch together, virtually, Morrison says. That doesn't mean no visits to the grandparents - but do keep younger kids away.

Drew Harris suggests now may be the time for care packages for elderly relatives, rather than in-person visits.

"Don't visit older relatives unless it's absolutely necessary - as in they need food, they need help at home, they need supplies or they need their medications," says Morrison. He says every older adult needs to be staying at home right now with plenty of food and medication supplies on hand. And adult children should have back-up plans to care for older parents in case they get sick, since they're the ones at highest risk from the coronavirus.

But do try to stay in touch regularly so that older relatives don't feel too isolated. Now would be a good time to teach your mom and dad how to use video calling if they don't know already.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a lead adviser on the federal government's COVID-19 response, said the new CDC guidelines hadn't yet tackled that question. But a commentary in the journal Pediatrics does raise concerns about the spread of the virus in day cares. Pediatrician Andrea Tania Cruz of Baylor College, who co-wrote the commentary, acknowledges that some parents, especially low-income ones, won't have the option of keeping their kids at home with them.

So why the concern over day cares? Cruz says there's evidence that infected people can shed the virus in their stool for several weeks after diagnosis. The most common test for coronavirus can't distinguish whether the virus being shed is alive or dead, Cruz notes. But she says the finding does raise concerns that caretakers changing diapers for kids who aren't yet potty trained could potentially be exposed to the virus. "I think day care, if it's older kids who are all potty trained, it's less of a risk," Cruz says.

Millions of American parents are now trying to figure out how to work from home - while also tending to kids whose schools are closed to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Play dates seem like an obvious solution to help little ones burn off energy while you get some work done. But while the CDC didn't offer any official guidance here, several experts say play dates may defeat the purpose of everyone hunkering down.

She notes that elementary school-age kids get about five viral infections a season on average. "If they're playing with three or four friends, each one would be about to have, had or is getting over a viral illness that they could then, unfortunately, share," she says. And at this moment, she says, it's not just the coronavirus that's a concern, but any virus that might lead a child to need medical attention. That's because you want to avoid doctor's visits if you can, both to avoid possibly getting infected with coronavirus and to avoid overloading the health care system.

Dr. Jenny Radesky, a developmental behavioral pediatrician at the University of Michigan, says the goal is for parents to limit exposure, period.

"My guidance right now to families is, as much as possible, do not have your kids in other people's houses. Do not have other people's kids in your house. There are times where for child care arrangements or for absolute necessity, you need to have one or two or more kids together. But if at all possible, really just keep kids at home."

If you do let your kids outside to play with others, make sure the children keep at least six feet of distance from other children (which can be very hard for younger children to abide by). That's because the virus can be transmitted via coughs or droplets within a six-foot radius of an infected person. "We're avoiding playgrounds and other places that germs can accumulate," Radesky says.

The new CDC guidance is to avoid social visits for now. Once again, think virtual - maybe have a FaceTime dinner party with friends.

Morrison says the answer depends in part on where you live. If there's widespread transmission of coronavirus in your community, his advice is to skip the visitors altogether. But "if you're in areas where there is less community spread, then limiting visitors rather than eliminating them, in my opinion, is probably a reasonable approach." He advises limiting interactions to one friend at a time.

If it's a nonessential visit to a doctor or dentist, reschedule it, Birx said Tuesday during a White House press conference. "Things that don't need to be done over the next two weeks, don't get it done. If you're a person with an elective surgery, you don't want to go into a hospital right now." She urged people to "be responsible" to free up hospital beds and space.

Harris says he wipes down the handles on the shopping cart or basket when he shops. The stores he visits offer wipes, but hand sanitizer should also work.

Both Harris and Morrison advise being careful not to touch your face with your hands while you're at the store, and washing your hands before and after going. And of course, try to maintain a distance of at least 6 feet from others. "Social distancing .... doesn't mean no one ever sets foot out the front door," Morris says. "It means being careful."

After you unpack the food at home, wash your hands again, Harris says. And if you're in a high-risk group like the elderly or immunosuppressed, he advises asking someone else to shop for you or having groceries delivered instead.

Copyright 2020 NPR. This story was originally published here.

LAist associate editor Brian Frank contributed to this story.

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Your No-Panic Guide: Am I Doing Social Distancing Right?

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By Maria Godoy and Allison Aubrey | NPR By now, you've heard the advice that to slow the spread of coronavirus in the U.S., we need to practice social distancing. But if you're confused as to what that looks like in practice, you're not alone.

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Houseparty is the app for those looking to connect or host a virtual social. The Houseparty app works on iPhone and Android, but you can also use it on your Mac or in Google Chrome.

Houseparty also offers apps to play games with friends, chat or jump on a video call.

Since Houseparty works on almost any system, it is easy to find your friends.

While the service was originally very popular with teens and college students, Houseparty has seen exponential interest from more users.

This is due to unprecedented numbers seeking to stay connected during the age of social distancing.
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What is Houseparty?

The Houseparty app is a video chat application which allows friends to pop in and out of Houseparty room to chat with each other.

Houseparty is unlike Skype or FaceTime calls requiring invites or specifically rings a friend.

Instead, consider Houseparty a more open platform, although it is not wide open for anyone to join your chat randomly.

Those wishing to invite friends can send an invite via text or iMessage which will direct users right to the app.

There are also notifications helping users find a Houseparty to join.

When in the app you need friends using it to really get a good experience.

The Houseparty app is free to use without any real limits.

You can make in-app purchases to play Heads Up in the app.

This is the popular Heads Up app and you can buy cards for an estimated 79p (99 cents) per pack.
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What parents need to know about Houseparty:

The Houseparty app is rated 12+ on iTunes and Teen on Google Play.

Alone the app does not contain any objectionable material.

Parents will approve of how users cannot jump into a video chat with a stranger, but can video chat with friends and friends of friends.

Ultimately the content on the app depends on the friends who join and their friends or other people who are invited to the Houseparty group video chat.

Houseparty tips:

Houseparty users can control some of the app to change the experience, although there is little you can do to change the experience for the most part.

You can mute the microphone if you do not want to leave a room, but you need to talk without people in the room hearing you.

Another option is to Flip the camera to show the front or rear camera view.

Most of the time it will be the front-facing camera so you are on the screen and able to see.

However, sometimes you will want to show off a cool view or activity with the front-facing camera.

No matter which camera you use, look for brighter areas to use the app for better video quality.

Houseparty users can also lock the room to prevent others from joining it if you only want a certain set of users to be part of this video chat.

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During these unprecedented times, the theater community has come together to provide viewers from around the world the opportunity to stream select theater productions for free. Check out this updating list of musicals, plays, and operas that are now streaming!

Check back throughout the day for more productions!
Plays: The Croft Streams Worldwide

"Pay What You Can" production. Croft is a thriller by Ali Milles, directed by Philip Franks and starring Gwen Taylor and Caroline Harker, Originally scheduled to tour the UK in Spring 2020. Stream the production starting March 27th!

Plays: Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art Streams Worldwide

"Pay What You Cant" production. The Habit of Art is a 2009 play by English playwright Alan Bennett, centred on a fictional meeting between W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten while Britten is composing the opera Death in Venice. Stream the production starting March 26th!

Plays: Henry V Streams Worldwide Friday March 27th

This timeless Shakespeare tale is cleverly brought up to date and explores the conflict between tradition and modernity in Britain through the lens of a nation at war.

Plays: I and You Streams Worldwide

I and You, starring Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) and Zach Wyatt, is a witty and uplifting portrayal of friendship, youth and living life to the full written by one of America's most produced playwrights. It was a box office and critical success at Hampstead Theatre where it received its UK debut in 2018.

Musicals: Myth - A New Rock Musical Streams Worldwide

'Myth' is a modern retelling of the ancient Greek story of Orpheus and the underworld. Filmed in 2018 on the West End.

Ballets: Peter and the Wolf Streams Worldwide on March 27th

The Royal Opera House will be offering a free programme of curated online broadcasts, musical masterclasses and cultural insights that get under the skin of both ballet and opera and offer everyone a unique look behind the scenes at one of the world's most famous cultural institutions.

Concerts: Billy Porter's Broadway & Soul Streams in the US

Ebullient triple-threat and Tony and Drama Desk Award winner Billy Porter is a New York City theater success story. Here the versatile and altogether irresistible Kinky Boots star appears where his talents shine brightest-center stage, performing a heartfelt selection of songs, including his own, drawing on a wide spectrum of styles and emotions.

Musicals: Lin-Manuel Miranda's 21 Chump Street Streams worldwide

Lin-Manuel Miranda turns a piece of reporting broadcast in 2012 into a 14-minute Broadway musical, created by people who normally work on Broadway. Nearly 50 actors, singers, dancers, musicians, and comedians joined Ira Glass onstage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House on June 7, 2014, to try some things they'd never tried before. The result? Journalism turned into opera, into plays, into a Broadway musical (by Lin-Manuel Miranda, starring Lindsay Mendez and Anthony Ramos).

Concerts: Sutton Foster in Concert
Streams in the US

Two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster brings her irresistible show-stopping talent and effusive charm to the intimate Appel Room for a special night featuring a special guest, two-time Tony nominee Jonathan Groff (Hamilton, Spring Awakening, Glee).

Concerts: Cynthia Erivo in Concert
Streams in the US

Tony Award-winner Cynthia Erivo presents a soulful evening of song. Originally part of 'Live from Lincoln Center'.

Musicals: Sistas The Musical (2013)

As four sisters meet in their late grandmother's attic before her funeral, music and memories trace black women's lives from Jim Crow to the 2010s.

A meteor the size of LA is about to hit LA, ironically, and in London a couple of friends spend their last seven days watching the news, reinventing chess and rewriting the rules of some of the other games in their universe: generally getting things into perspective, at once paralysed and inspired by the 'overallness of it all'. In his darkly hilarious and poignant new comedy, Sebastian Michael imagines The End of the World not as a disaster movie, but as experienced by two young men from the comfort of their sofa. Getting ready, as best they can, to die together, the enormity of what's about to happen completely overwhelms them, but it also brings out in them a whole burst of creative energy, and so as the story to top all stories unfolds, they inadvertently become its co-authors, while in a dimension far beyond their imagination, their soul-mates-in-spirit are having something of an unexpected ball...

Musicals: Eugenius! The Musical (2018)

Ben Adams and Chris Wilkins' homage to the great sounds and cinema of the 80s reaches across time and space to enchant you whatever your age. Meet Eugene, Janey and Feris as they reach for the stars and discover the superhero inside themselves. With a hilarious script and dynamite original songs that'll be stuck in your head for weeks, this shot of musical adrenaline is like nothing you've heard before.

Pippin, first in line to inherit the throne of King Charlemagne, decides his life is lacking real meaning and accompanied by the ever present Leading Player, sets out to find it. Along the way he encounters love war sex and power to finally realize that his life never was what he thought it was.

Musicals: The Wind in the Willows (2017)
Streams Worldwide; Free in UK

Join Ratty, Badger, Mole and the impulsive Toad as they embark on a series of riotous adventures spiralling from Toad's insatiable need for speed! The Wind in the Willows is a musical written by Julian Fellowes, with music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, based on the novel of the same name, written by Kenneth Grahame.

( Those that are outside the UK can stream the show through this link)

Plays: Buried Child (2019)
Streams Worldwide; Free in US

Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play in a production by The New Group, directed by Scott Elliott. Dodge (Ed Harris) and Halie (Amy Madigan) try to hang on to their farmland and their sanity while caring for their two wayward grown sons (Rich Sommer and Paul Sparks). When their grandson (Nat Wolff) arrives no one seems to recognize him and a secret must be kept. Hosted by Blythe Danner.

Plays: Incident at Vichy (2016)
Streams Worldwide; Free in US

Nine men and a boy are interrogated under suspicious circumstances in Arthur Miller's play "Incident at Vichy," which is set during the Nazi occupation in France during World War II.

Special Event: Old Hats (2016)
Streams Worldwide; Free in US

Bill Irwin and David Shiner in their award-winning, critically acclaimed production of Old Hats from Signature Theatre off-Broadway. This production reunites the clowns with original director Tina Landau and introduces their songstress and comic foil Shaina Taub. Using music, magic, technology, and movement, Irwin and Shiner create a hilarious, slapstick piece of theater.

Plays: School Girls; Or, The AMerican Mean Girls Play (2019)
Streams Worldwide; Free in US

Jocelyn Bioh's play explores colorism in this comedy directed by Tony Award winner Rebecca Taichman and produced by MCC Theater. Paulina (MaameYaa Boafo) -the queen bee at an exlusive Ghanan school-is set on competing in the Miss Universe pageant. However, the arrival of Ericka (Joanna A. Jones), an American transfer student, captures the attention of the recruiter along with Paulina's friends.

Plays: The Gabriels - 3 Part Play (2017)
Streams Worldwide; Free in US

Tony Award-winner Richard Nelson's three-play cycle follows one year in the life of an American family in Rhinebeck, NY, during the 2016 presidential election. "Hungry" is part one. The trilogy was filmed at The Public Theater in March 2017 and stars Meg Gibson, Lynn Hawley, Roberta Maxwell, Maryann Plunkett, Jay O. Sanders, and Amy Warren.

Play 1 - Hungry

Play 2 - What did you expect?

Play 3 - Women of a certain age
Streams Worldwide; Free in US

Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the Frederick Loewe Theater at Hunter College is directed by Richard Nelson. Vanya (Jay O. Sanders) and his niece Sonya (Yvonne Woods) struggle to care for the estate owned by Vanya's brother-in-law Alexánder (Jon DeVries), a wealthy professor. When he returns with a beautiful new wife and plans to sell the estate, hidden passions explode and lives come undone.

Operas: The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD (Various Years)

The Metropolitan Opera in New York announced that it would stream for free several award-winning Live in HD programs on the company's website for the duration of the closure of the Met. The new offering will began on Monday, March 16 with the 2010 HD performance of Bizet's Carmen, conducted by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Upcoming free streams from the Met Opera:

Thursday, March 19 - Verdi's La Traviata Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, and Quinn Kelsey.

Friday, March 20 - Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez.

Saturday, March 21 - Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, and Mariusz Kwiecien.

Sunday, March 22 - Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin Conducted by Valery Gergiev, starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

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Free musicals and plays you can now stream during the Coronavirus outbreak [UPDATING DAILY] - Stream Broadway Shows & Musicals Online | Filmed on Stage

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Alexa is Amazon's cloud-based voice assistant. She is proficient at operating your smart home, but she also has a range of skills you may have overlooked. Alexa's game-playing prowess is growing in popularity thanks to the wide selection of audio games available. In fact, they are some of the top skills in the Alexa Skills catalog.

From immersive role-playing quests for the die-hard console gamer, to the lighter and more comedic party-style games that are sure to liven up any family gathering, we have compiled a list of our favorite Alexa games and elaborated on what it's like to play them.

Further reading

Choose-your-own-adventure and story-based games

If you've never played a choose-your-own-adventure game with your smart speaker, you might want to start here, as it can be hard to go back to Alexa's somewhat emotionless voice after listening to a game with actual voice actors (which we'll get to later). In this game, you get a monotone Alexa saying things like, "Oh, my, I'm really scared now," in the exact same tone she replies that she's turned your lights off.

Still, it's a good game for beginners. To start, Alexa will ask if you want to explore the mountains, sea, or forest. Each will send you on a magical quest along a path strewn with magical objects, talking creatures, and occasionally creepy sounds. For some reason, you need to turn on notifications to enable this skill.

Rated: Parental guidance suggested
Magic Door on Amazon
Earplay has more stories you influence with your choices. In the demo, a woman sits at your table in a restaurant and asks you to pretend you know her. Every choice you make, from playing along with her ruse to rummaging through her purse, will have consequences. Earplay's secret agent story, Codename Cygnus , is a seven-chapter interactive fictional world where you are a secret agent trying to accomplish your mission. Earplay now has five additional stories you can choose from, including Jurassic World Revealed and You and the Beanstalk, perfect for the whole family.

Rated: Mature
Earplay on Amazon
For lovers of Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer, and Diablo, The Dark Citadel is an episodic, choice-based gaming experience where the player is the last hope for the besieged city of Alderton. Alexa is the humble narrator of your quest, reading off rich and descriptive passages that create a compelling narrative for you to interact with.

At key junctures, Alexa will provide prompts that allow for attacking, conversations with strangers, getting boozed up at the hamlet pub, and a slew of other choices that will influence the outcome of the player's overall story. Snippets of cinematic Game of Thrones- esque orchestral movements and fantasy sound effects help to pad out this immersive journey.

LC Publishing, the developers of The Dark Citadel, are truly masters of the episodic, or "chapter-based," gaming subgenre. Once you complete their Citadel adventure, you can even take your full-fledgedhero (or villain) into three new stories from the LC team, including Ghost Stories, Last Light in the Dark, and Gumshoe Detective Agency.

Rated: Parental guidance suggested
Dark Citadel on Amazon
RuneScape is an online RPG, but you don't have to know anything about the game's fantastical medieval world to play One Piercing Note. As an adventurer, you're tasked with solving the mystery of the abbey. It's a bit like The Name of the Rose, only it's dead nuns instead of murdered monks.

Unlike The Wayne Investigation, this quest is Alexa-free, helping to keep you in the atmosphere of the secluded abbey, which may or may not contain a demon. Fair warning: Some of the details are pretty gruesome.

Rated: Parental guidance suggested
Runescape on Amazon
In this fun little 2034 cyberpunk mystery, you play a detective working alongside a state-of-the-art artificially intelligent crime scene investigator. Each story is told in a case-by-case format, where players interact with Ivan in real time as he collects clues and witness testimony to help players solve crimes. The developers of the game, The Verse, are still in their infancy as a gaming outfit. Based on Ivan's production quality and plentiful options for story and character advancement, we can expect big things from the team.

Rated: Parental guidance suggested
Detective Ivan on Amazon
Escape games are all the rage, so it's not surprising one exists in an Alexa-compatible format. It's not quite a choose-your-own-adventure game, but more of a verbal hidden object plus puzzle game. A smart speaker may not be the best format for this, so be prepared for some repetition.

There are only a few simple commands to control most of your movement, so if you want to look at objects on a shelf, you have to first be looking at the shelf. If you're looking at the door and say, "Look at the shelf," Alexa will tell you there's no shelf to look at. For some reason, she also had some trouble understanding us in general. We said bucket, not buffet! Despite the difficulties, it's still a unique game for the platform and will take longer than some of the others on the list.

Rated: Parental guidance suggested
Escape the Room on Amazon
This isn't quite a story game, but you are answering questions to determine your fate. You're a medieval lord just trying to live under the reign of a temperamental king. The monarch isn't happy if you're too rich, too poor, too influential, or if you hold no sway. Sometimes you'll find yourself with too much money and make a move that should empty the coffers a bit, only to find it backfires. Good luck trying to survive with your head intact.

Rated: Mature
Yes Sire on Amazon
Based on a TV game show

When you hear Johnny Gilbert and Alex Trebek greet you upon firing up this skill, you know it's the real deal. Each day, you'll get to answer a question from six Jeopardy! categories. Prime subscribers get an extra six from the Double Jeopardy rounds for free; non-Prime members can pay $2 a month for these questions. If you're having trouble thinking of the correct response, you can stall a bit by not answering in the form of a question, and Alexa will remind you. This is, of course, cheating and wouldn't fly on the actual game show.

Rated: N/A
Jeopardy on Amazon
This unofficial version of Deal or No Deal is zero stakes. You pick a briefcase to hold onto, then subsequently chose other briefcases to open. Hopefully, you get rid of all the ones containing a cent, $500, $1,000, and so on, without opening the ones holding $1 million or $750,000. You might want to keep a pen and paper handy, or you can open your Alexa app to remind yourself which cases you've already chosen. Fun fact: Meghan Markle used to open briefcases on the show.

Rated: N/A
Deal or No Deal on Amazon
Though Bob Barker isn't there to ask you questions, and it isn't quite the Price Is Right, but the Guess the Price skill still makes you feel like you're on a game show. As with the game show, you will be guessing the prices of items. If you guess the exact price you get bonus points, but close is good, too.

Rated: N/A
Guess the Price on Amazon
Good for a group

With Song Quiz, Alexa will play a snippet of a song, and you can guess either the artist or title. Get both correct for bonus points. You can choose a decade between the 1960s to and 2010s and play with friends in the room or solo. If you're alone, the game will pit you against a stranger. Don't worry, you don't actually hear each other's answers, just whether they got it right or wrong.

Every once in a while, Alexa will let you know just how skilled you are: We were among the 18% that got both the title and artist for Sugar Ray's "Every Morning." It helped propel us to victory against Catherine from Georgia. And if you're going to make fun of us for knowing that Sugar Ray song, shut the door, baby, don't say a word.

Rated: Parental guidance suggested
Song Quiz on Amazon
This party game makes you choose between two terrible scenarios, then lets you know what percentage of people agree with you. Actually, this is the family edition, so some of the scenarios aren't too bad. (Would you rather spend the night in an amusement park or a library?) There's also Harry Potter edition included in this skill, which was unexpectedly entertaining. Would you rather lick Dobby's freedom sock or share a food bowl with Fang?

Rated: Parental guidance suggested
Would You Rather on Amazon
This game is a mix up of two party games: Truth or Dare and Spin the Bottle. Alexa spins an imaginary bottle and will tell you who it lands on. From there, the play must choose truth or dare. There are 220 questions and tasks for Alexa to choose from, depending on the answer, so the games won't get boring too quickly.

Rated: Mature
Truth or Dare on Amazon
The idea of this game is simple: Answer true or false to a series of questions. Some are straightforward, others are tricky. Even if you guess correctly, you might learn something, since Alexa often follows up with more facts. You may know David Letterman was a weatherman, but did you know he once gave a tropical storm kudos for getting upgraded to a hurricane?

Rated: Parental guidance suggested
True or False on Amazon
Word games

You're looking for a five-letter word. Alexa will supply the first letter or two, but the rest is up to you. It's a bit like playing Wheel of Fortune without the light-up letters. Going the "r-s-t-l-n-e" route isn't a bad idea, because you'll know when you got a letter in the right spot, when you've got the correct letter but it's in the wrong position, or when a letter isn't in the word at all.

Let's say your word starts with "bl." You could guess "bland," and Alexa would tell you that "b," "l," and "a" were in the right spots, "n" isn't in the word, and "d" is in the wrong spot. Opting for "blade" next would probably be a good idea.

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Word Play on Amazon
There aren't a ton of games that work with the Echo Buttons yet, but this is one of them. In the two-to-four player anagram game, Alexa reads out a category, along with clues, word length, and each letter out of order. Players then buzz in when they think they have the answer. Based on the reviews, this is one of the least buggy Echo Button games.

Rated: N/A
Hanagram on Amazon
Much like in Scattergories, you'll get a letter, and each word you give must start with that letter. Alexa then reads off the categories, one at a time. The more you play, the more categories the skill will unlock. There isn't really a competition mode, so you can give the most obvious answer and won't be penalized. In Scattergories the board game, if you and another player have the same answer, neither of you gets points.

Also, Alexa is comfortable accepting completely wrong answers for questions, as long as they start with the correct letters. Letter: D. Category: Superhero. Answer: Debbie Reynolds is correct. (We actually said Dangermouse, but OK.) Also, we could never get Alexa to accept our (actually correct) answers for the category of the week. We know they're right, because we Googled "Pokemon characters that start with "r." Alexa is wrong; we are Raichu.

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Categories on Amazon
This game goes beyond just teaching you a new word every day. It also quizzes you on it to help you remember. First, it will have you listen to the Word of the Day flash briefing, then it will ask you questions about what you just learned. It's a great game for those that want to increase their vocabulary.

Rated: Guidance Suggested
Word of the Day on Amazon
Though you can play this skill alone, it's much more fun playing with a group of people. You'll hear a series of clues in your chosen category. Your job is to guess what you think Alexa is describing before anyone else. For example, if you knew the answer you would yell, "Alexa, you're Marilyn Monroe!" Categories include countries, animals, historical figures, famous actors, animated characters, and random.

Rated: Parental guidance suggested
Guess My Name on Amazon
From the beloved app and created by Ellen DeGeneres Heads Up is the perfect game for a group of people. You'll choose a category and Alexa will provide three fun facts and clues for each card. See how many you can get in 90 seconds, and the person that gets the most wins. The categories you can choose from include superstars, blockbuster moves, animals gone wild, just for families, and more.

Rated: Parental guidance suggested
Heads Up on Amazon
Drinking games
Editor's note: Always drink responsibly!
Whether you call it Kings, King's Cup, or Jug Oval (what?), there's a fair chance you played some version of this college drinking game. For Who Drinks, Alexa takes over the role of the playing cards. Instead of assigning an action to a particular value - like guys drink when a five is flipped over - simply ask Alexa "Who drinks?" She'll respond with something like "drink left," meaning the player to the left of the person who asked has to take a sip. She may also come up with categories, like nap time (last one to put their head on the table drinks), or T. Rex arms (you have to tuck your elbows into your sides when holding your cup). It's not a bad substitute if you can't find your playing cards.

Rated: Mature
Who Drinks on Amazon
If you do have a deck of cards but want to switch things up, Party Game offers some twists on a similar Kings theme. Players deal out the entire deck and look at their hand to see if they need to do what Alexa commands them to. The person holding the seven of clubs might have to give all their aces to another player, give the person holding the three of diamonds a back massage, or choose between doing a 15-second squat or drinking. One flaw is that if you don't ask for the next prompt fairly quickly, the game exits. That might be fine if you're just swapping cards, but asking everyone to touch the ground could take a little longer.

Rated: Mature
Party Game on Amazon
Think you know everything there is to know about country music? This drinking game will make you prove your skills. The host, Cale Dodds, will ask you a question about country music trivia. If you get the answer right, you get and point and if you get it wrong, you have to drink. Five points wins the round. You can play with up to eight people.

Rated: Mature
Country Drinking on Amazon
Kid games

Keep in mind with kids' skills, you'll need to opt into a lot of permissions. These might include recording your child's voice, so take a look at the terms before agreeing.

Designed to get kids moving, Silly Things has Alexa prompting them to perform different actions, from posing for selfies to pretending they're in an invisible box. You do have to ask for something else to try each time, presumably because kids will likely want to spend more time pretending to ride a broom or acting like a zombie who's scared of humans than doing an upside down smile.

Rated: N/A
Silly Things on Amazon
This skill is a combination of choose-your-own-adventure and math game. You are tasked with rescuing the queen after she's been kidnapped by tricky, arithmetic-loving elves. To save her, players must solve problems (fewer than 99) involving addition, subtraction, or saying which number is higher or lower. To launch the skill, you'll want to say "open" or "start" plus the name of the game, because saying "Play Queen's Mathematician" prompts Alexa to look for music. To be fair, it does sound like the name of a prog-rock band*.

*We've been informed that Brian May is Queen's mathematician because he has a Ph.D. in astrophysics.

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Queen's Math on Amazon
This 20-questions-but-just-for-animals game is a bit eerie. You think of an animal, and Alexa asks questions to try and figure it out. Some are yes-or-no (Does it roar? Is it extinct?) while others require an answer: What color is it? How many legs does it have? We tried to stump her with a platypus, but Alexa figured it out after 17 questions.

Rated: N/A
Animal Game on Amazon
Another get-up-and-move game, this skill asks kids to do as the animals do. The movements, or, if you're acting like a cow, moo-vements, range from sticking your tongue out like a giraffe to flapping your "wings" like a butterfly or swinging your arms like an ape. Music plays for about 15 seconds per animal. You might want to move the furniture for this one.

Rated: N/A
Animal Workout on Amazon

The Sesame Street skill lets you play hide and seek with everyone's favorite red monster, Elmo. To clue your kiddo into where he's hiding, Elmo will make silly sounds as clues. Your kids can also learn the word of the day and talk to Elmo with this skill.

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Sesame Street on Amazon
This game is sort of like musical chairs mixed with Simon Says. Alexa plays a tune, you dance until the music stops, and then you freeze in place. The first kid to lose balance is the first one out. Alexa will suggest funny ways to dance and you can even have a space dance-off by saying, "Alexa, dance in space," while the skill is in use.

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Freeze Dance on Amazon
Your kids can play hide and seek with Alexa as much as they like. With this skill, the players hide in the same room as Alexa and she has three tried to guess where they are.

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Hide and Seek on Amazon
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The Best Games to Play with Alexa | Digital Trends

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Alexa is Amazon's cloud-based voice assistant. She is proficient at operating your smart home, but she also has a range of skills you may have overlooked. Alexa's game-playing prowess is growing in popularity thanks to the wide selection of audio games available. In fact, they are some of the top skills in the Alexa Skills catalog.

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I'll do them all but i couldn't eat a carrot.  I'd be sick :'(

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Why not get creative with journaling while you are at home.  Here's some great tools to help :)

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This list of 365 one word art journal prompts will hopefully help you inspire to create fun pages all year round AND is now updated for 2018 with a FREE printable - so you can now take this list with you everywhere!

I love working with these prompts and there are so many ways you can use these! How you choose to interpret them is completely up to you, which makes them super flexible.

Free Printable Download Links Available At the End of This Article!

Why One Word Art Journal Prompts?

Sometimes all you need to get going in your art journal is one word to inspire you.

I like using one word journal prompts, as they can be tied into just about any theme or journal rather easily.

With just one word, there's a lot of freedom to do just about anything - you can interpret that one word any way you'd like!
Here's a couple of ideas for how you can use prompts to spark your journal pages:

Use them as a list for things to draw or sketch

Use the prompts to find fitting quotes that you like

Write about your thoughts and feelings related to the prompt in hidden journaling as a background layer.

Use colors and textures that fit the theme, mood, and feeling of a word

There are truly no limits, so while I might have listed some ideas here and there for different words - it is COMPLETELY up to your interpretation!

Sometimes it is fun to challenge yourself to do something new, even if it's not a prompt that you are immediately drawn to doing.

Here is our list of 365 Art Journal Prompts to Get You Creating This Year!

To help you get started, here is a list of 365 one word journal prompts to jump start your creativity. You can either pick any word that fits your creative mood, or you can go day by day down the list.

1. Happiness: What makes you happy? What brings you the most joy possible?

2. Beauty: How do you define beauty? What things are beautiful to you?

3. Sleep: What things help you sleep at night? Or, are you a night owl? Do you get enough sleep or wish you could sleep more?

4. Garden: From flowers to plants to paths, there is much to be inspired by in the garden!

5. Imagination: How do you interpret the word imagination? Where might your imagination lead you?

6. Secret: Secrets can be very hard to keep!

7. Give: Think about what it means to be giving, or of someone who has given you something special or an opportunity.

8. Thankful: A little gratitude in your journal can always go a long way!

9. Kindness: From random acts of kindness to ways you can be kind to others.

10. Inside: Inside can be anywhere - inside your heart, your mind, your closet, your purse... 🙂

11. Outside: Outside can also be far reaching - from outside the window or how others view us on the outside.

12. Jump: Are you ready to dive into something new? Thinking about taking a leap?

13. Friendship: Do you have friends who are special to you? Create a page that is an ode to a special friend {and yes, furry friends totally count!}

14. Love: What does love mean to you? What things in life do you love most? The best thing about these art journal prompts is how you interpret them is totally up to you!

15. Fire: From a gentle candle flame to a roaring fire - use this element as inspiration.

16. Believe: What do you believe in? Maybe it's magic or a cause that you are passionate about.

17. Hope: There is always hope! What things are you hopeful about?

18. Faith: What do you have faith in?

19. Focus: Do you find it easy to focus? Or perhaps think focus as a camera lens - do you zoom in or zoom out?

20. Clean: What does clean mean to you? Soap and bubbles, laundry or housework or something else?

21. Angry: Art journals are great places to express anger!

22. Work: What type of work do you enjoy? OR...you could always create pages based on different professions, such as construction workers or business people or secretaries.

23. Music: What are you listening to today? 24. Stars: Do the stars align? What do you think when you see the stars? Or you of course can create a page about outer space and space aliens and astronauts!

25. Mystery: Is there an unsolved mystery? What do you think of that evokes a sense of mysteriousness in a person or mood?

26. Envelope: Use an envelope in your page, or doodle and draw on an envelope and send to a friend. Or, maybe create a page all about the expression, "Pushing the Envelope".

27. Book: Have you read any good books lately?

28. Dare: I dare you!

29. Choose: Making decisions is NOT always so easy!

30. Beach: Which way to the beach? What are your favorite things? Is there a scene that pops into your mind when you think of the beach?

31. Forgiveness: Saying I'm sorry

32. Disaster: Oh no

33. Dance: You can dance if you want to! Ballerinas, line dancing, square dancing, the waltz, the polka...

34. Mistake: Making mistakes in art journaling can be part of the fun!

35. New: New people, new places, new things

36. Yes: Say yes! What is something you have said yes to recently?

37. Path: What pathways do you think of? Brick? Stone? Gravel? Dirt? The woods? The beach? A meadow?

38. Horizon: Sunrise, sunset - what's on the horizon?

39. Mountain: Scenic views or a metaphor for challenges in life

40. River: Let it flow

41. Open: What's opening? Maybe your eyes, or a door, or a box...hmmm...

42. Heart: What fills your heart - or just draw and doodle your favorite heart patterns and designs!

43. Soul: What is the core of your very being?

44. Tear: Torn paper or tears rolling down your cheeks?

45. Spiral: Around the spiral staircase we go! Or, for even more fun, pull out the spirograph!

46. Up: Draw arrows or ladders

47. Go: The places we go!

48. Be: Mindfulness and being

49. Seek: What do you seek in life?

50. Learn: Something you want to learn or a lesson you've learned, or maybe even some back to school type of theme.

51. Balance: This art journal prompt could be about balancing things in your life, or even balancing contrasting colors on a page.

52. Grow: How have you grown? What things are growing in your life?

53. Strength: Superman's got nothing on you. 🙂

54. Dream: Whether a dream you want to achieve or a page inspired by that strange dream you had the other night.

55. Passion: What motivates and excites you?

56. Move: Exercising or moving boxes?

57. Today: Today is today! What are we doing today?

58. Awaken: Are you awakening to something new in your life? Have you had an "alarm clock moment"?

59. Angels: Heavenly inspiration!

60. Laughter: Funny jokes, riddles, comic books - what makes you laugh?

61. Listening: Do you hear what I hear?

62. Pause: Wait a minute!

63. Peace: Peace and Calming

64. Relax: Ways to kick back and chill

65. Space: Draw in 3d space or think about your space around you...or maybe even Outer Space. 🙂

66. Wisdom: wise mind & wise heart

67. Difference: Opposites

68. Begin: Where shall we start?

69. Time: Do you have the time? What time is it? How do you keep track of time?

70. Brave: Courage!

71. Breathe: Deep breath in, deep breath out.

72. Childhood: Memories or childhood innocence and playfulness

73. Discovery: What have you discovered while exploring?

74. Mind: What's on your mind?

75. Energy: Feeling electric!

76. Flower: Do you have a favorite flower?

77. Health: What makes you feel well?

78. Harmony: Peace and Tranquility - or maybe some harmonious music?

79. Recovery: Recovery comes in all types of different ways - from recovery from an event, an illness or even recovering lost files from a hard drive.

80. Stand: Perhaps an ode to chairs, or maybe inspiration from a time you took a stand on something.

81. Nowhere: Where shall we go?

82. Soar: Birds, hopes, and aspirations.

82. Skip: Next, please!

83. Fresh: Maybe it's fresh laundry, fresh bread, fresh food growing in a garden or a fresh start in something.

84. Delicious: Who's hungry?

85. Power: Unplugged or Supercharged?

86. Complete: What completes you? Or, what have you recently completed?

87. Grace: Like a swan?

88. Legend: It's legendary.

89. Ecstasy: Extreme joy, or maybe a throwback to the 90's raves...hmmm...

90. Hug: You can never have enough hugs in this world. {Side note, have you ever watched one of my favorite videos " Free Hugs Campaign "?

91. Proud: What makes you feel proud?

92. Simple: Keep it simple!

93. Machine: Beautiful flying machines, time machines, or maybe modern machines that just make our life easier.

94. Victory

95. Vibrancy

96. Leadership

97. Alive

98. Bloom

99. Fame

100. Enormous

101. Independent

102. Unique

103. Metamorphosis

104. Silence: Shhh....

105. Tranquility

106. Project

107. Smile

108. Miracle

109. Amazing

110. Game

111. Connected

112. Muse

113. Dazzle

114. Determination

115. Free

116. Help

117. Intuition

118. Smart

119. Sweet

120. Honesty

121. Useful

122. Safety

123. Ready

124. Vision

125. Cycle

126. Discipline

127. Promise

128. Patience

129. Destiny

130. Rejuvenate

131. Shine

132. Talk

133. Stress

134. Missing

135. Age

136. Success

137. Motivation

138. Family

139. Loneliness

140. Experience

141. Future

142. Vintage

143. Wings

144. Letter

145. Wandering

146. Factory

147. Rainbow

148. Ask

149. Self

150. Locket

151. Home

152. Cloud

153. Hunger

154. Possibilities

155. Boredom

156. Innocence

157. Charge

158. Rhythm

159. Date

160. Consequence

161. Prescription

162. Goals

163. Lost

164. Found

165. Cry

166. Parade

167. Party

168. Ice

169. Dragon

170. Alarm

171. Understanding

172. Uncomfortable

173. Serious

174. Opposites

175. Playful

176. Attention

177. Caring

178. Hero

179. Lace

180. Clue

181. Ideas

182. Junk

183. Collection

184. Radio

185. Interview

186. Zoom

187. Puzzle

188. Landscape

189. Advice

190. Memories

191. Communication

192. Compassion

193. Universe

194. Loyalty

195. Sharing

196. Travel

197. Voices

198. Sidewalk

199. Tree

200. Story

201. Why

202. Maybe

203. Antique

204. Action

205. Culture

206. Fuel

207. Desire

208. Weather

209. Directions

210. List

211. Ride

212. Wish

213. Breakfast

214. Touch

214. Sadness

215. Comfort

216. Circle

217. Reflection

218. Optimism

219. Anxiety

220. Shadow

221. Spirit

222. Stretch

223. Challenge

224. Five

225. Messy

226. Adventure

227. Fun

228. Surprise

229. Illusion

230. Mischief

231. Shy

232. Lesson

233. Whisper

234. Fight

235. Castle

236. Protect

237. Shop

238. Wheel

239. Pieces

240. Leaves

241. Fool

242. Productivity

243. Overcome

244. Encouragement

245. Watch

246. Lighthouse

247. Mild

248. Mouth

249. Rare

250. Target

251. Boat

252. Box

253. Grief

254. Heavy

255. Zeal

256. Color

257. Brilliance

258. Enthusiastic

259. Approval

260. Enchanting

261. Attraction

262. Photograph

263. Waterfall

264. Moment

265. Paradise

266. Parachute

267. Social

268. Zingy

269. Number

270. Little

271. Sound

272. Reach

273. Money

274. Staircase

275. Lemon

276. Wood

277. Try

278. You

279. Quote

280. Weakness

281. Bridge

282. Building

283. Clothes

284. Prepare

285. Teach

286. Window

287. Drive

288. Middle

289. Microphone

290. Definition

291. Shout

292. Catch

293. Release

294. Balloons

295. Sharp

296. Crowd

297. Cute

298. Cheery

299. Glow

300. Apple

301. Pictures

302. Swing

303. Wave

304. Joke

305. Cope

306. Accomplish

307. Special

308. Neighborhood

309. Wonderful

310. Service

311. Calling

312. Magic

313. Spontaneous

314. Fluffy

315. Organic

316. Silly

317. Thunderstorm

318. Toys

319. Butterfly

320. Buzz

321. Vine

322. Shock

323. Enjoy

324. Craving

325. Respect

326. Abstract

327. Rainbow

328. Train

329. Invention

330. Perspective

331. Genius

332. Circus

333. Ball

334. Crystal 335. Purple

336. Fairy

337. Cup

338. Reality

339. Forget

340. Priorities

341. Journey

342. Hands

343. Shoes

344. Television

345. Newspaper

346. Radiance

347. Hidden

348. Fright

349. Climb

350. Guess

351. Pretend

352. Turn

353. Shatter

354. Together

355. Adapt

356. Keep

357. Closed

358. Embrace

359. Blessing

360. Block

361. Pizzazz

362. Breakthrough

363. Curiosity

364. Distance

365. Zen

I hope you enjoy this list of 365 one word journal prompt ideas and of course don't forget to share this list with others! It makes us very, very happy to know we are inspiring so many people each month with creative journaling prompts!

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On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, as cases have spiked around the world in the last two weeks outside of China, where the novel coronavirus originated. As of publication, WHO has documented 125,288 confirmed cases of the disease globally, and the spread of the disease has had serious impacts in the hardest-hit countries like Iran and Italy.

As in any situation, knowledge is power. In the interest of empowering people to respond to this pandemic, Teen Vogue has collected information from medical and public health authorities to explain some fundamental facts about coronavirus, COVID-19, and how the duo of virus and disease is spreading.

What are coronaviruses and how is this one different?

According to WHO, coronaviruses (also known as CoV in medical jargon) are a family of viruses that includes other notable examples like the virus that caused Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). They're named for the Spanish word for "crown" because of the crown-like spikes all over their surface. While it has become common parlance to call the current outbreaks as caused by "coronavirus," this is, technically speaking, like using the term "dog" to describe a pitbull; just as there are other forms of dogs than pitbulls, there are other forms of coronavirus than the one currently causing crises.

What makes this coronavirus different is that it's what medical experts call novel. As explained by WHO, this means this strain of virus has never been identified in humans before, meaning there is no existing knowledge on how to control this specific strain's spread. Efforts to find a broader coronavirus vaccine have already been underway for years, and now, the novel coronavirus outbreak has prompted a serious push for vaccine research as medical experts rush to understand how it spreads and how to stop it.

What is COVID-19?

As explained by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), COVID-19 (an abbreviation of Corona virus disease 20 19) is the name for the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. In the same way that HIV is a virus and AIDs is the disease it causes, the novel coronavirus is a virus and COVID-19 is the disease it causes.

It's believed that symptoms will start to appear within 14 days of infection. These symptoms include a fever, coughing, and shortness of breath. Severe complications can include pneumonia, organ failure, and death. Currently, WHO reports that roughly one in five people who contract the virus need hospitalization.

WHO data also indicates that, as of publication, 4,614 people have died of COVID-19. With 125,288 confirmed cases, that puts the death rate at around 3.3%. Despite that, the Associated Press reported on March 11 more than half of COVID-19 cases result in a recovery. For example, in China, where the bulk of global cases have been confirmed, more than 60,000 people had recovered out of more than 80,000 cases.

According to the CDC, the people at highest risk for serious complications from the disease are older adults and people with chronic conditions like heart disease, lung disease, or diabetes. Additionally, the CDC is advising that anyone who is immunocompromised (has a weakened immune system) could be at a higher risk for infection; they've asked doctors to prioritize available testing for people over 65, people with chronic health conditions, and the immunocompromised.

The intensive care that some patients require is its own risk factor for local public health systems. In northern Italy, an outbreak of more than 10,000 cases has stretched hospitals to the breaking point. The Atlantic extensively covered the difficult choices facing doctors in the region, where a lack of staff and supplies has apparently exacerbated the death toll. Vice News has also reported that in Lombard, the Italian city hit hardest, 12% of the infected are health-care workers.

How are the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 spread?

According to the CDC, the current understanding is that the novel coronavirus in question is spread by close physical contact and respiratory droplets - spit, snot, or other fluids that might be released by coughing or sneezing - from someone with COVID-19. While the current understanding is that the virus is not communicable through the air, WHO reports that the respiratory fluids it lives in can infect people by remaining on a surface where they land and then being picked up through physical contact.

The CDC also believes that it is easiest to spread the virus when a person is especially sick with COVID-19, though there is evidence that it can be spread even when someone is displaying no symptoms. Significantly, the CDC has also reported that there is "community spread," a public health term that means people infected with the virus cannot trace how they contracted it. The most recent available CDC data at time of publication indicates that, of 1,215 cases of COVID-19 in the U.S., 125 are travel-related, 102 came from close contact with someone infected, and 988 are still under investigation.

What are strategies for preventing its spread?

The medical wisdom to prevent spread right now is still fairly simple. The CDC recommends regular hand-washing using proper methods (20 seconds with soap and water), using hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol content if soap and water are not available, and avoiding touching your face (especially your eyes, ears, nose, and mouth) with unwashed hands. You should also wash your hands before you do anything like eat or apply makeup to your face.

The CDC is also advising what some are calling "social distancing," which basically just means staying at least six feet away from people who are sick. If there is an outbreak reported in your community, it means staying away from people all together. This is especially true for people in higher-risk groups, like older adults and people with chronic health issues or weakened immune systems.

In China, where the first major outbreak took place in Wuhan (a city in Hubei province), recent official figures appear to indicate that the government has been able to control the virus. The New York Times reported that Chinese officials say this was accomplished through a lockdown of 60 million people in Hubei (a strategy now being employed in the entirety of Italy), strict quaratines, and travel restrictions. As the Times noted, the true test of the success of these measures will be when these harsh policies are lifted and life returns to normal.

What should I do if I feel sick?

CDC guidelines recommend several steps in the event that you feel sick at this point, regardless of whether or not it's confirmed you're infected with coronavirus. These include staying home if you feel sick, wearing a face mask if you feel sick and have to be around other people (as in sharing a room or a vehicle), and regularly cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched surfaces. The CDC recommends common disinfectants like bleach and alcohol for use.

Additionally, if you cough or sneeze at all, cover your mouth or do so into a tissue that you dispose of immediately. Then wash your hands for 20 seconds with soap and hot water or, if they aren't available, use hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol.

If you're not feeling well, the CDC recommends avoiding public areas and public transportation, limit your contact with other people or pets in your home, use a separate bathroom from others if possible, avoid sharing household items like dishes, regularly clean and disinfect surfaces.

The CDC also advises that you should only leave your house if you need medical attention. There is a real risk of overloading hospitals in serious outbreak scenarios, and medical providers have asked people to call ahead before coming to the emergency room because, barring necessary emergency intervention, some cases can be handled through isolation at home and will not require hospitalization. The CDC says it's best to make an appointment with your doctor, let them know if you have concerns about COVID-19, and wear a face mask if you do go, as that can help limit the spread of the disease.

Should I be freaking out?

The short answer for most people is, no. Panic is rarely a helpful response, and managing anxiety brought on by the news coverage of coronavirus can be beneficial.

Based on what we know right now, most people - especially young people in good health - will recover from a case of COVID-19 even if it continues to spread in the United States. If you are at higher risk because you're older or have health issues, take preventative measures but don't succumb to overwhelming anxiety, as anxiety itself can have physical symptoms. Self-care in a pandemic means taking steps to prevent infection and spread, but also maintaining your mental health.
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On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, as cases have spiked around the world in the last two weeks outside of China, where the novel coronavirus originated. As of publication, WHO has documented 125,288 confirmed cases of the disease globally, and the spread of the disease has had serious impacts in the hardest-hit countries like Iran and Italy.