Recommended COVID and Other Respiratory Virus Guidance

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Recommended Prevention Steps

The CDC no longer uses COVID Hospitalization Levels to determine community COVID risk. Instead, the CDC has published new guidelines incorporating Influenza, Respiratory Syncytial Virus/RSV, colds, and COVID. This is called Respiratory Virus Guidance.

Core Prevention Strategies

• Immunizations
  • Influenza
  • COVID
  • RSV
• Hand hygiene with hand washing or hand sanitizer
• Take steps for cleaner air in your home and business
• Treatments when available
• Stay home and away from others if you are sick

Additional Prevention Strategies

• Masking
• Social Distancing
• Testing for COVID, Influenza, RSV

Layering prevention strategies can be especially helpful when:

• Respiratory viruses are causing a lot of illness in the community
• You or those around you are at risk for severe disease
• You or those around you were exposed, have been sick, or are recovering

Please stay home if you are ill until your symptoms improve and you are fever-free for 24 hours.

Respiratory Virus Guidance (CDC)