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    Essential Employee Guidance Covid 19

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    The document provides guidance from the Board of Health in Lawrence, MA on protocols for essential employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. It outlines recommendations for employees who are healthy, vulnerable, have been exposed or tested positive for COVID-19, have family members who are symptomatic, and other situations. The guidance advises monitoring for symptoms, isolating or quarantining as needed, consulting doctors, and discussing remote work options with employers.

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    The document provides guidance from the Board of Health in Lawrence, MA on protocols for essential employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. It outlines recommendations for employees who are healthy, vulnerable, have been exposed or tested positive for COVID-19, have family members who are symptomatic, and other situations. The guidance advises monitoring for symptoms, isolating or quarantining as needed, consulting doctors, and discussing remote work options with employers.

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    Essential Employee Guidance Covid 19

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    The document provides guidance from the Board of Health in Lawrence, MA on protocols for essential employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. It outlines recommendations for employees who are healthy, vulnerable, have been exposed or tested positive for COVID-19, have family members who are symptomatic, and other situations. The guidance advises monitoring for symptoms, isolating or quarantining as needed, consulting doctors, and discussing remote work options with employers.

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    OFFICE OF THE

    Board of Health - City of Lawrence DR. JOEL GORN, MD


    Chairman
    City Hall • 200 Common Street • Lawrence, MA 01840
    Tel: (978) 620-3271 • Fax: (978)722-9285 STEVEN H. GIL
    www.cityoflawrence.com Board Member

    MIKE ARMANO
    Director/Agent for
    Board of Health

    Essential Employee Guidance COVID-19 Response

    You are healthy.

     Stay home if you do not have an essential role.


     Stay home if you are able to work from home, otherwise you may report to work. You
    should discuss this option with your employer.
     Monitor your health.
     Take your temperature before every shift.
     Do not come to work if your temperature is above 100.3 degrees.
     Do not come to work if you are symptomatic including having a fever, cough, sore throat,
    or trouble breathing.

    Your primary care doctor recommends that you stay home or quarantine because you are
    vulnerable to the COVID – 19 virus because of age or pre-existing health condition.

     Stay home.
     Do not report to work until you have been cleared by your primary care doctor or health
    care provider.
     If you are feeling well, you may work from home (if able). You should discuss these
    options with your primary care doctor and your employer.

    You are 65 years of age or older or have a pre-existing health condition.

     Consult your primary care doctor or health care provider for guidance as to whether you
    should stay home.
     Consider taking time-off.
     Stay home if you are not an essential employee.
     Stay home if you are able to work from home, otherwise you may report to work. You
    should discuss this option with your employer.
     Monitor your health.
     Take your temperature before every shift.
     Do not come to work if your temperature is above 100.3 degrees.
     Do not come to work if you are symptomatic including having a fever, cough, sore throat,
    or trouble breathing.

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    You have tested positive for COVID – 19.

     Follow the instructions of your primary care doctor or health care provider.
     Isolate for 14 days from the last day you show signs and symptoms of the virus. Isolate for
    a longer period as directed by your primary care doctor or health care provider.
     Do not report to work until you have been cleared by your primary care doctor or health
    care provider.
     If you tested positive but are not exhibiting symptoms and you are feeling well, you may
    work from home (if able). Discuss these options with your primary care doctor and your
    employer.

    You have signs and symptoms but have not tested positive for COVID – 19.

     Stay home.
     Do not report to work until you have been cleared by your primary care doctor or health
    care provider.
     Follow the treatment advice from your primary care doctor or health care provider.
     If you are feeling well, you may work from home (if able). You should discuss these
    options with your primary care doctor and your employer.

    You are in quarantine, in isolation, or have been sent home but have no symptoms of
    COVID – 19.

     Stay home.
     Do not report to work until you have been cleared by your primary care doctor or health
    care provider.
     If you are feeling well, you may work from home (if able). You should discuss these
    options with your primary care doctor and your employer.

    You are asymptomatic but you have had “close contact” with someone who tested positive
    for COVID – 19.

    “Close contact” may include but is not limited to being within six (6) feet of a person who has tested positive
    for COVID-19 for approximately 20 minutes, caring for a person who has tested positive for COVID-19, or
    being in direct contact with secretions or respiratory droplets of a person who has tested positive for COVID-
    19 by cough, sneezing, sharing utensils, or other means, in environments where the exposed person was not
    wearing proper PPE (personal protective equipment).

     Stay home.
     Quarantine for 14 days or longer as directed by your primary care doctor or health care
    provider.
     Do not report to work until you have been cleared by your primary care doctor or health
    care provider.
     If you are feeling well, you may work from home (if able). You should discuss these
    options with your primary care doctor and your employer.

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    You are asymptomatic but you have had “close contact” with someone who has not tested
    positive for COVID – 19 but is showing signs and symptoms.

    “Close contact” may include but is not limited to being within six (6) feet of a person who has tested positive
    for COVID-19 for approximately 20 minutes, caring for a person who has tested positive for COVID-19, or
    being in direct contact with secretions or respiratory droplets of a person who has tested positive for COVID-
    19 by cough, sneezing, sharing utensils, or other means, in environments where the exposed person was not
    wearing proper PPE (personal protective equipment).

     Consider taking time-off.


     Stay home if you are not an essential employee.
     Stay home if you are able to work from home, otherwise you may report to work. You
    should discuss this option with your employer.
     Monitor your health.
     Take your temperature before every shift.
     Do not come to work if your temperature is above 100.3 degrees.
     Do not come to work if you are symptomatic including having a fever, cough, sore throat,
    or trouble breathing.
     Practice social distancing as much as reasonably possible. Use different touch surfaces,
    arrange separate sleeping areas and wash your hands frequently.
     If the person becomes Positive for Covid-19 after testing, you must quarantine at home
    for 14 days and/or until cleared by MD.

    A member of your family or household is asymptomatic but in quarantine because he/she


    had “close contact” with someone who has tested positive for COVID – 19.

     Consider taking time-off.


     Stay home if you are not an essential employee.
     Stay home if you are able to work from home, otherwise you may report to work. You
    should discuss this option with your employer.
     Monitor your health.
     Take your temperature before every shift.
     Do not come to work if your temperature is above 100.3 degrees.
     Do not come to work if you are symptomatic including having a fever, cough, sore throat,
    or trouble breathing.
     Practice social distancing as much as reasonably possible. Use different touch surfaces,
    arrange separate sleeping areas and wash your hands frequently.
     If your family or household member becomes Positive for Covid-19 after testing, you must
    quarantine at home for 14 days and/or until cleared by MD.

    Page 3 of 4 Essential Employee Guidance COVID-19 Response - 3/31/2020


    A member of your family or household is symptomatic but has not tested positive for
    COVID – 19.

     Consider taking time-off.


     Stay home if you are not an essential employee.
     Stay home if you are able to work from home, otherwise you may report to work. You
    should discuss this option with your employer.
     Monitor your health.
     Take your temperature before every shift.
     Do not come to work if your temperature is above 100.3 degrees.
     Do not come to work if you are symptomatic including having a fever, cough, sore throat,
    or trouble breathing.
     Practice social distancing as much as reasonably possible. Use different touch surfaces,
    arrange separate sleeping areas and wash your hands frequently.
     If your family member becomes Positive for Covid-19 after testing, you must quarantine
    at home for 14 days and/or until cleared by MD.

    A member of your family or household has tested positive for COVID – 19.

     Stay home.
     Quarantine for 14 days or longer as directed by your primary care doctor or health care
    provider.
     Do not report to work until you have been cleared by your primary care doctor or health
    care provider.
     Attempt to maintain social distancing as much as possible from your family members or
    household.
     If you are feeling well, you may work from home (if able). You should discuss these
    options with your primary care doctor and your employer.

    This guidance is not a standard or regulation, and it creates no new legal obligations. It contains
    recommendations as well as descriptions of safety and health standards. The recommendations are advisory
    in nature, informational in content, and are intended to assist employers in providing a safe and healthful
    workplace. The COVID-19 response is an evolving, rapidly changing situation. Please regularly review online
    resources and guidance documents published reliable sources such as mass.gov, cornovirus.gov, and
    cityoflawrence.com.

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