How to protect yourself and your family:

How to protect yourself and your family:

Stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines
Get Tested and Seek Treatment
Improve Ventilation and Spend Time Outdoors
Stay Home and Avoid Contact if You or other people you know have Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19
Follow Recommendations if you are Exposed

Staying Up to Date

Vaccines help your body develop protection from the virus that causes COVID-19.

Vaccinated people sometimes get infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.
Staying up to date on COVID-19 vaccines significantly lowers the risk of getting very sick, being hospitalized, or dying from COVID-19.

If you are moderately or severely immunocompromised or severely allergic to COVID-19 vaccines: Talk with a healthcare provider about whether you are eligible for a medicine called EVUSHELD™ that you can take before you are exposed or test positive for COVID-19.

Testing and Treatment

- Get tested if you have COVID-19 symptoms.
- Request an at-home-test from us (add number here), or request a test kit from https://test2treat.org/
If you test positive, stay at home and avoid contact with people. Request treatment following the instructions from the website https://test2treat.org/ .

Ventilation

Spend time outside when possible, instead of inside. Viral particles spread between people more readily indoors than outdoors .
Improving ventilation and filtration can help protect you from getting infected with and spreading the virus that causes COVID-19.

Actions that can improve ventilation and filtration include:

Bringing in as much outdoor air as possible—for example, opening windows.

Increasing air filtration in your heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, such as by changing filters frequently and using filters that are properly fitted and provide higher filtration.

Using portable high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) cleaners.
Turning on exhaust fans and using other fans to improve air flow.
Turning your thermostat to the “ON” position instead of “AUTO” to ensure your HVAC system provides continuous airflow and filtration.

Stay Home and Avoid Contact

If you have COVID-19, you can spread it to others, even if you do not have symptoms.
If you have symptoms, get tested and stay home until you have your results.
Stay home and away from others for at least 5 days (possibly more, depending on how the virus affects you) and wear a high-quality mask when indoors around others for a period of time. If you need masks, call us (add EVH number)
Avoiding contact with people who have COVID-19, whether or not they feel sick.
Sometimes you cannot stay away from a person who has COVID-19 or you may want to help take care of them. In those situations, use as many prevention strategies as you can, such as:
- Wash/disinfect your hands consistently
- Correctly wear a high-quality mask.
- Improve ventilation, and keeping your distance, when possible, from the person who is sick or who tested positive.

If you have any concerns or questions, call us at 919-742-1448