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Essential Guidelines for Communicating About COVID-19 and Precautions

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This guidance complements the expanded guidance document for communication with friends and family, as well as guidelines for professional conversations at the workplace, contractor communication, and the appendices by providing a deeper framework for crafting thoughtful communication strategies. Is communicating with family and friends about COVID-19 a challenge? Many people find these conversations difficult because … Continued

Expanded Guidelines for Communicating About COVID-19 and Precautions

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This guidance complements the short guidance document for communication with friends and family, as well as guidelines for professional conversations at the workplace, contractor communication, and the appendices by providing a deeper framework for crafting thoughtful communication strategies. Introduction Is communicating with family and friends about COVID-19 a challenge? Many people find these conversations difficult … Continued

Navigating Workplace and Professional Conversations About COVID-19 Precautions

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This guidance complements the short and expanded guidance documents for communication with friends and family, as well as guidelines for contractor communication, and the appendices by providing a deeper framework for crafting thoughtful communication strategies. Navigating conversations about COVID-19 precautions in professional or workplace settings requires balancing clarity, respect, and awareness of dynamics such as … Continued

Guidance for Contractors: Communicating About COVID-19 Precautions

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This guidance complements the short and expanded guidance documents for communication with friends and family, as well as guidelines for professional conversations at the workplace, and the appendices by providing a deeper framework for crafting thoughtful communication strategies. As a contractor, addressing COVID-19 precautions requires professionalism and tact. Unlike employees, contractors often navigate less formal … Continued

Appendix on Guidelines for Communicating About COVID-19 and Precautions

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This appendix complements the short and expanded guidance documents for communication with friends and family, as well as guidelines for professional conversations at the workplace, and contractor communication by providing a deeper framework for crafting thoughtful communication strategies. Appendix A: Active Listening and Motivational Interviewing Effective communication often involves understanding the other person’s perspective and … Continued

Guidelines for Ventilation

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This document lays out recommended ventilation and air cleaning requirements for governments, businesses, and building operators. SARS-CoV-2 transmission is higher indoors than outdoors[1] and transmission is substantially reduced by indoor ventilation.[2] The failure to enhance ventilation and air cleaning puts the users of buildings at unnecessary risk.

Taking Care of an Ill Person at Home

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If symptoms are not severe and the person is not at high risk for developing severe disease due to age, pre-existing illness (diabetes, obesity, COPD, immunosuppressive conditions, etc), they may be able to safely recover at home. Below are important factors to keep in mind when taking care of a COVID-19 infected person at home

Masks

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Covid-19 is airborne and highly contagious. Wearing a mask protects people from getting infected and from spreading infection. Mask Guidance Don’t Share Air! – Mask Fit Matters Why Wear a Mask? Covid-19 is airborne, highly contagious, and can cause serious long-term health effects for anyone who is infected. Transmitted through aerosols, the virus can linger … Continued

Dental Safety

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Going to the dentist is one of the high risk things to do during a pandemic unless adequate precautions are being taken. While dentists engage in high risk activities for their patients and staff, and while we know that airborne transmission is prevalent during this pandemic, many dentists are still using droplet precautions—with a focus on deep cleaning, 6 ft distance, and surgical masks—instead of implementing airborne transmission precautions—with focus on cleaning air by HEPA filters and using high quality masks.

Travel

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Flying in a pandemic is high-risk, avoid it unless necessary. The risk lies in the sharing space, bathrooms, the many transitions along the way, and unpredictability due to last minute changes.

This guideline is for those who HAVE TO fly and aims to minimize the risk of being infected during the flight. The goal is to help identify the transmission risks of in-flight air travel, to provide recommendations about the risks of flying during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to propose strategies that mitigate the transmission.