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General Community Guidance and Recommendations

We know the tools of prevention that work to lower the risk of getting or spreading COVID-19.

We’ve used these tools and we’ve seen them work.

These aren’t new, but let’s review the various tools in our prevention toolbox.

  • Wash your hands with soap and water, or use an alcohol-based hand disinfectant
  • Practice good cough and sneeze etiquette – cough into your elbow, not your hand. This protects your hands and the surfaces you touch from becoming contaminated.
  • Wear a mask.
  • Avoid touching your face - your mouth, nose, and eyes - to keep from infecting yourself with the germs on your hands.
  • Monitor your health. Stay home from work, school, and activities if you are not feeling well or have symptoms that may be related to COVID.
  • Be aware of your environment and practice good physical distancing
  • Limit your time in crowded indoor environments
  • Open windows and screen doors to improve air ventilation or move activities outdoors, when possible.
  • Clean high-touch surfaces frequently. 
  • And, finally, a tool we didn’t have last year – COVID-19 Vaccine! Be fully vaccinated by getting the COVID-19 vaccine to protect yourself and others.

Follow these tips to keep yourself, your family, and your colleagues safe and healthy?

Click here to read more through the Nebraska DHHS website: COVID-19 - Protect Yourself and Others.