State Representative Tim O’Neal (R-48) invited Chief Medical Officer of Canonsburg Hospital Thomas Corkery D.O. to a telephone town hall to address constituent’s concerns with regard to the Covid-19 virus. Corkery was asked a number of questions and his advice was clear. Practice everything that the Pennsylvania Department of Health recommends, stay home, practice social distancing, wash hands constantly with soap and water and do not touch your face. Corkery explained that the virus is passed from person to person by droplets from one person’s sneeze or cough and picked up by a second person. That second person is infected when the virus is internalized by touching their face. Corkery explained that knowing where people live who have the virus is a matter of patient privacy, and because the virus is everywhere, it serves no purpose to disclose a patient’s location. Any testing being done in Washington County is being authorized with a prescription. Anyone who feels they need a test will need to obtain a prescription from a doctor, most likely through telemedicine. People not exhibiting severe symptoms are not tested. The reason for that is that sometimes the delay between tests and results may be a week or more. One could test negative and the day before the test results return, that person could contract the disease causing a false negative. O’Neal also addressed concerns about the inability to apply for Unemployment Compensation indicating that the Unemployment Office is overwhelmed by a record number of requests.