We asked for your questions about how the coronavirus is affecting your life in Bloomington, and you answered: we at City Limits have received more than 250 questions about the coronavirus.
Every day as this crisis continues, we will be deliberate in letting you know these answers to your questions, no matter the platform.
Every weekday we'll publish a new City Limits: Coronavirus story, so bookmark this webpage. Our team of reporters is committed to answering as many of these questions as possible on our website, in our social media channels and when possible on radio and television reports.
But please know – we don’t have the medical expertise for you to describe your symptoms and get a reasonable answer about whether you have the virus or should go to get tested. We'll turn to the experts to find answers, and we will provide general information we hope will be helpful, but please don’t consider our information as a substitute for working with your health care professional.
Thank you for your questions - and your patience, as we do our best to find out answers.
As summer nears and the COVID-19 case numbers in Indiana continue to rise, the idea of a packed home improvement store poses new and somewhat unknown health risks.
As part of our City Limits: Coronavirus project, a listener asked what will happen if COVID-19 “spikes while we’re opening up. Will we go back to lockdown like in the beginning?”
Holcomb’s executive order notes that boating is only allowed with social distancing measures in place; but Stage 3 guidelines allow for social gatherings of up to 100 people.
Our City Limits series received multiple questions about rental companies and landlords sending maintenance employees for inspections and whether renters have to let them in.
The exact location of the site in downtown Bloomington has not been made known because it won’t be taking walk-in patients. You must schedule an appointment, and at that time, you will be told where to go for your test.
Those who have already filed for pandemic unemployment assistance and have been denied will get an email with additional instructions from the department, if they haven't already.
This week, the state launched its contact tracing call center, taking over the task for 21 local health departments across Indiana, including here in Monroe County.
Many questions to City Limits: Coronavirus asked what went into the decision to not follow plans for most of the rest of the state outlined May 1 by the governor.
Utility companies are prohibited from discontinuing service to customers during the COVID-19 pandemic according to Gov. Eric Holcomb’s executive order.
A questioner asked City Limits: Coronavirus, “Is any research being done on vape and corona vulnerability, including the way kids share the vape devices?” There likely is some, but it’s difficult to gauge how definitive any of it has been.
Our City Limits series has been flooded with questions about hair - when will salons reopen? What guidelines will they have to adhere to and how will they ensure their clients safety?
Medical experts generally recommend wearing a cloth mask to help slow the spread of coronavirus when going outside your home. But people also want to know how effective wearing homemade masks actually is.
With the safety recommendations from the CDC and the ISDH changing so rapidly, a reader wrote into our City Limits: Coronavirus series wondering if she had to wear a mask and rubber gloves when she goes out in public.
Vaccines against pneumonia, such as pneumococcal vaccine and Haemophilus influenza type B (Hib) vaccine, do not provide protection against the new coronavirus.
As talk of reopening the economy begins, listeners have been sending questions to City Limits about how it should be handled—and if the discussion is happening too soon. City officials, business owners, and economic experts weigh-in.
With Gov. Eric Holcomb deeming construction essential business, Shockney says he and other IU Health officials wanted to keep day-to-day operations as normal as possible.
Since the pandemic began, people have been reporting more vivid dreams and overall better memory of their dreams. Share with us how COVID-19 has affected your dreams.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, washing clothes with detergent and according to manufacturer instructions is sufficient. You should use the warmest possible water settings wherever possible.
One reader had concerns about congregations of people around Seminary Park in Bloomington and the Kroger next door and wanted to know what the city was doing about the lack of social distancing there.
Part of the stay-at-home order limits gatherings in the state to 10 people or fewer. Funerals in Albany, Georgia, turned that city into one of the country’s worst coronavirus hotspots in March. All this led one of our viewers to ask – what happens with funerals now?
"The hope that this is going to end someday in the not-too-distant future is precisely what will get me through to the other side": here's how two local residents are making their own silver linings amid the pandemic.
A questioner to City Limits: Coronavirus wondered if there was evidence to support that possibility: “When the weather warms is the virus expected to decrease?” Experts say, probably not.
