The Orchards Newsletter April Newsletter 2020 | Page 8

Steps to help prevent the spread
of COVID-19 if you are sick
• FOLLOW
Wash thoroughly
after BELOW:
use: After If using
these
items,
them or think you might have it, follow the steps below to help
THE STEPS
you are
sick
with wash
COVID-19
If you develop emergency warning signs for COVID-19
thoroughly with soap and water or put in the dishwasher.
get medical attention immediately.
protect other people in your home and community.
Emergency warning signs include*:
Clean all “high-touch” surfaces everyday
Clean high-touch surfaces in your isolation
Stay home except to get medical care
area (“sick room” and bathroom) every day;
home: clean
People
who
are mildly
ill with
let • a Stay
caregiver
and
disinfect
high-touch
surfaces
in other are
areas
home. at home. Do
COVID-19
able of to the
recover
not leave, except to get medical care. Do
• Clean
disinfect:
clean high-touch surfaces in
not and
visit
public Routinely
areas.
your “sick room” and bathroom. Let someone else clean
surfaces
in common
areas, you
but get
not medical
your care.
• and
Stay disinfect
in touch with
your doctor.
Call before
bedroom
bathroom.
Be sure and
to get
care if you feel worse or you think it is an
ɞ emergency.
If a caregiver or other person needs to clean and
disinfect a sick person’s bedroom or bathroom, they
• Avoid public transportation: Avoid using public transportation,
should do so on an as-needed basis. The caregiver/other
ride-sharing, or taxis.
person should wear a mask and wait as long as possible
after the sick person has used the bathroom.
Separate yourself from other people in your
• High-touch surfaces include phones, remote controls,
home,
this is known as home isolation
counters, tabletops, doorknobs, bathroom fixtures, toilets,
• keyboards,
Stay away from
others:
As bedside
much as tables.
possible,
tablets,
and
you should stay in a specific “sick room”
• Clean
disinfect
may have
blood,
stool, or body fluids
and and
away
from areas
other that
people
in your
home.
on Use
them.
a separate bathroom, if available.
• • Household
cleaners
Clean
the area
or item
Limit contact
with and
pets disinfectants:
& animals: You
should
restrict
contact
with
soap
and
water
or
another
detergent
if
it
is
dirty.
with pets and other animals, just like you would
around
Then,
a household disinfectant.
other use
people.
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sure to follow
on the of
label
there the
have instructions
not been reports
pets to or other
ensure
safe
and
effective
use
of
the
product.
animals becoming sick with COVID-19, it is Many
still
products
recommend
keeping with
the the
surface
for contact
recommended
that people
virus wet
limit
several
minutes
to
ensure
germs
are
killed.
Many
with animals until more information is known. also
recommend
precautions
such as member
wearing of
gloves
ɞ When possible,
have another
your and
making
sure
you
have
good
ventilation
during
of with
household care for your animals while you are use
sick
the
product.
COVID-19. If you must care for your pet or be around
ɞ Most
EPA-registered
household
disinfectants
animals
while you are
sick, wash
your hands should
before
be and
effective.
A full
list of with
disinfectants
be found and
after you
interact
them. See can
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more information.
Monitor
your before
symptoms
Call ahead
visiting your doctor
• • Seek
attention,
but a call
first: Seek
Call medical
ahead: If
you have
medical
medical
care
right
away
if
your
illness
appointment, call your doctor’s
office or
is emergency
worsening (for
example,
if
you
department, and tell have
them you
difficulty
have or breathing).
may have COVID-19. This will help
protect
themselves
and other
patients.
ɞ the
Call office
your doctor
before
going in: Before
going
to the doctor’s
office or emergency room, call ahead and tell them your
symptoms. They will tell you what to do.
• Wear a facemask: If possible, put on a facemask before you
enter the building. If you can’t put on a facemask, try to
keep a safe distance from other people (at least 6 feet
away). This will help protect the people in the office or
waiting room.
• Follow care instructions from your healthcare provider and local
health department: Your local health authorities will give
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instructions on checking your symptoms and reporting
information.
• Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
Wear
a facemask if you are sick
• Persistent pain or pressure in the chest
• If you are sick: You should wear a facemask
• New confusion or inability to arouse
when you are around other people and
• before
Bluish you
lips enter
or face
a healthcare provider’s office.
not all
Please
consult
medical
• *This
If you list
are is caring
for inclusive.
others: If the
person
who your
is sick
is not able
provider
for
any
other
symptoms
that
are
severe
or trouble
to wear a facemask (for example, because it causes
concerning.
breathing), then people who live in the home should stay in
a different room. When caregivers enter the room of the sick
Call
911 if they
you should
have a wear
medical
emergency:
If you
have than
a
person,
a facemask.
Visitors,
other
medical
emergency
and
need
to
call
911,
notify
the
operator
caregivers, are not recommended.
that you have or think you might have, COVID-19. If possible,
put on your
a facemask
medical help arrives.
Cover
coughs before
and sneezes
• Cover: Cover your mouth and nose with a
How tissue
to discontinue
when you home
cough isolation
or sneeze.
• • People
with
COVID-19
who have
Dispose:
Throw
used tissues
in stayed
a lined home
trash can.
(home isolated) can stop home isolation under
following
conditions: wash your hands with soap and
• the
Wash
hands: Immediately
at least
If soap if and
are not
ɞ water
If you for
will not
have a 20
test seconds.
to determine
you water
are still
available,
clean
your
with an
alcohol-based
contagious,
you
can hands
leave home
after
these three hand
things
sanitizer
that contains at least 60% alcohol.
have happened:
§ You have had no fever for at least 72 hours (that is
three hands
full days
of no fever without the use medicine
Clean your
often
that reduces fevers)
• Wash hands: Wash your hands often with
AND
soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
§ other symptoms have improved (for example, when
This is especially important after blowing
your cough or shortness of breath have improved)
your nose, coughing, or sneezing; going to
AND
the bathroom; and before eating or preparing food.
§ at least 7 days have passed since your symptoms
appeared
• Hand first
sanitizer:
If soap and water are not available, use an
ɞ alcohol-based
If you will be tested
to sanitizer
determine
if you
are still
contagious,
hand
with
at least
60%
alcohol,
you
can
leave
home
after
these
three
things
have
covering all surfaces of your hands and rubbing them
happened:
together
until they feel dry.
§ You no longer have a fever (without the use
• Soap medicine
and water: that
Soap reduces
and water
are the best option,
fevers)
especially
AND if hands are visibly dirty.
§ other symptoms have improved (for example, when
• Avoid your
touching:
Avoid
touching of
your
eyes, have
nose,
and mouth
cough
or shortness
breath
improved)
with AND
unwashed hands.
§ you received two negative tests in a row, 24 hours
apart. Your
doctor
will follow
CDC guidelines.
Avoid sharing
personal
household
items
In • all Do
cases,
of your
healthcare
provider and local
not follow
share: the
Do guidance
not share
dishes,
drinking
health
department.
decision
to stop
home or
isolation should be
glasses,
cups, The
eating
utensils,
towels,
made
in
consultation
with
your
healthcare
provider
and state
bedding with other people in your home.
and local health departments. Local decisions depend on local
circumstances.
More information is available here.
cdc.gov/COVID19
Additional information for healthcare providers: Interim
Healthcare Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations
for Persons Under Investigation for 2019 Novel Coronavirus.