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1. Should I stay home from work, school, or restrict my everyday activities?

If you are sick: Please stay home. If you are well and not at high-risk for COVID: Please practice social distancing, and other COVID precautions, and consider the risk to your health when making decisions. If you are well AND at high-risk for COVID: Please take additional precautions.

• Employment: Work with your employer to see if there are ways to work remotely or if they can provide other accommodation.
• School: Follow the recommendations of the school. Practice preventative measures such as social distancing and hand washing.
• Everyday activities and events: Use your judgment and assess your risk. Use online platforms and methods when possible to conduct personal business. Practice social distancing, proper hand washing, and reconsider attending functions with large groups of people. Stay connected with your friends, family, and neighbors for assistance.

2. What can I do to protect my employees in the workplace?

We encourage you to do the following:

• Review your employee illness policy to ensure that employees can stay home when sick to take care of themselves and prevent spreading illness to coworkers, customers, and clients. Ask employees to stay home if they have coughing, fever, or shortness of breath. If your policy requires a note from a medical professional, we encourage you to temporarily suspend the policy.
• Ensure that employees have a way to wash hands with soap and water at the workplace. Encourage employees to wash their hands frequently throughout the day.
• Increase cleaning and disinfection of shared areas and commonly touched surfaces, including customer areas. Many standard household disinfectants will work. Check to see if they are effective against CoV-2 or SARS-like viruses. There is also a list of EPA-registered disinfectants that will work.
• Think about essential staffing needed to continue operations in case you do have employees who call in sick.
• Think about how you can continue to serve customers and clients using online methods.
• Reconsider all non-essential travel.
• Provide employees, especially those who are high-risk, ways to telecommute or provide other reasonable accommodation.