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What you can do
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10 evidence-based strategies that individuals, families, and their communities can implement to slow the spread and control COVID-19.
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With infections surging across the U.S., these preventive strategies can help slow the spread and control COVID-19. Taking immediate action and following these preventive strategies will be critical to keep schools, businesses, and the healthcare system open and fully functioning.
- Wear Masks
- Maintain Distance/Limit Contacts
- Avoid Gatherings
- Identify & Isolate Cases
- Conduct Contact Tracing & Quarantine
- Protect High-Risk Groups
- Protect Health Care Workers
- Postpone Travel
- Wash Hands
- Vaccinate Widely
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The CDC published a report reinforcing these 10 strategies.
Adapted from: CDC and National Foundation for Infectious Diseases