While a new type of illness can be scary, community members can protect themselves by following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for preventing respiratory illnesses.
Cold and flu season continues in the Midlands and around the country. Inside Lexington Medical Center's network of care, there are Urgent Care facilities located around Lexington County.
Lexington Medical Center is carefully monitoring the 2019 Novel Coronavirus known as COVID-19 and referred to as "coronavirus" with multiple, local, state and federal agencies.
Out of an abundance of caution, Lexington Medical Center took steps to contact a group of Lexington Oncology Infusion Center patients, staff and visitors who may have been in the same general area as someone who was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis.