In the Fall and Winter months there is often a rise in respiratory viruses. This Fall (2022) there have been many RSV and flu cases requiring emergency room visits – especially for young children. Health clinics might also see more COVID cases and hospitalizations in the winter as people gather indoors and new COVID variants spread. These diseases can make young children, older adults, and other vulnerable people very sick, and overload hospitals and clinics.
RSV is a common respiratory virus that spreads every winter. Anyone can get RSV, but in 2022 we’re seeing a lot of cases in young children. For healthy adults and older children RSV can feel like a cold, with symptoms like runny nose, less appetite, coughing, and fever. But it can be a very serious illness for babies, older adults, and others.
The Seattle and King County Department of Public Health has put together an informative slide deck in eighteen languages. The deck Includes information about RSV, flu and COVID in King County, what to look for and how to prevent illness.
These slides can be shared in waiting rooms, at community centers, and in other places where people gather. Slides are available in the following languages: • አማርኛ (Amharic) • العربية (Arabic) • 简体字 (Chinese – Simplified) • 繁體字 (Chinese – Traditional) • دری (Dari) • English • Français (French) • 日本語 (Japanese) • ភាសាខ្មែរ (Khmer) • 한국어 (Korean) • KajinM̧ajeļ (Marshallese) • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Punjabi) • Русский (Russian) • Af Soomaali (Somali) • Español (Spanish) • Wikang Tagalog/Filipino (Tagalog/Filipino) • ትግርኛ (Tigrinya) • Українська (Ukrainian) • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
The Health Council of the Ethiopian Community in Seattle have created booklets discussing Mental Health. They are available in Amharic/English (Ethiopian), Oromo/English, and Tigrinya/English (Eritrean).
These instructional videos were created to help explain the viral swab procedure to patients presenting with coronavirus symptoms at Harborview Medical Center. The videos were created with interpreters and hospital staff who walk the patients through the nose-swab testing, and offer post-visit information. The videos are available in 7 languages: English interpreted into Amharic, Arabic, Cantonese, Oromo, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese.
Each video has an accompanying easy-to-scan QR code. If the patient wants to review the video once they are back home, they can scan the QR code which will automatically take them to the video on YouTube. QR code pdfs are available for download under each video, and are also found in the sidebar.
These are thirteen month calendars with photos and information about healthy eating and diabetes.
They are provided in Amharic (Ethiopian), Khmer (Cambodian), Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese. All calendars also include English. See sidebar for PDFs- full 2023 updates are coming soon.
Print on both sides of paper (flip paper on long edge) and fold to make calendar.
This handout offers information for families and loved ones of patients. It explains how doctors determine that a person is dead based on their brain function.
Handout PDFs are available at UW Medicine Health Online in English, Arabic, Tigrinya, Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Amharic and Spanish languages.
