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Good Samaritan Senior Care is committed in helping seniors stay safe and cared for in the comfort of their own homes. In conjunction with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) our caregivers have been trained to recognize the symptoms of COVID-19 in their clients and themselves. Our caregivers have also been trained to follow the necessary protocols to prevent and protect themselves and others from the spread of the disease.
Good Samaritan Senior Care will follow the guidelines set forth by the CDC.
UNVACCINATED INDIVIDUALS
♥ Everyone 2 years and older should wear masks in public.
♥ Masks should be worn in addition to staying at least 6 feet apart, especially around people you don’t live with.
♥ If someone in your household is infected, people in the household should take precautions including wearing masks to avoid spread to others.
♥ Wash your hands or use hand sanitizer before putting on your mask.
♥ Wear your mask over your nose and mouth and secure it under your chin.
♥ Fit the mask snugly against the sides of your face, slipping the loops over your ears or tying the strings behind your head.
♥ If you have to continually adjust your mask, it doesn’t fit properly, and you might need to find a different mask type or brand.
♥ Make sure you can breathe easily.
♥ Effective February 2, 2021, masks are required on planes, buses, trains, and other forms of public transportation traveling into, within, or out of the United States and in U.S. transportation hubs such as airports and stations.
FULLY VACCINATED PEOPLE
♥ Resume activities without wearing masks or physically distancing, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance.
♥ Resume domestic travel and refrain from testing before or after travel and from self-quarantine after travel.
♥ Refrain from testing before leaving the United States for international travel (unless required by the destination) and refrain from self-quarantine after arriving back in the United States.
♥ Refrain from testing following a known exposure, if asymptomatic, with some exceptions for specific settings.
♥ Refrain from quarantine following a known exposure if asymptomatic.
♥ Refrain from routine screening testing if feasible.
♥ For now, fully vaccinated people should continue to: Get tested if experiencing COVID-19 symptoms
♥ Follow CDC and health department travel requirements and recommendations.For the purposes of this guidance, people are considered fully vaccinated for COVID-19 2 weeks after they have received the second dose in a 2-dose series (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna), or 2 weeks after they have received a single-dose vaccine (Johnson & Johnson [J&J]/Janssen. There is currently no post-vaccination time limit on fully vaccinated status.
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
♥ Signs and symptoms of COVID-19 can include fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, muscle aches, headache, loss of taste or smell, sore throat, nasal congestion or rhinorrhea, vomiting or diarrhea, and skin rashes.
♥ Some patients with COVID-19 may progress to dyspnea and severe disease about one week after symptom onset.
♥ For most adults, isolation and precautions can be discontinued 10 days after symptom onset and after resolution of fever for at least 24 hours, without the use of fever-reducing medications, and with improvement of other symptoms.
♥ For adults who never develop symptoms, isolation and other precautions can be discontinued 10 days after the date of their first positive RT-PCR test result for SARS-CoV-2 RNA.
♥ Some severely immunocompromised persons with COVID-19 may remain infectious beyond 20 days after their symptoms began and require additional SARS-CoV-2 testing and consultation with infectious diseases specialists and infection control experts.
For more information about Covid 19, visit the Center for Disease Control (CDC) website by clicking here. -