Employers can use these strategies to limit exposures to COVID-19:

• Actively encourage employees to stay home if they are sick or have been exposed to COVID-19:
  • Follow the CDC's Quarantine and Isolation recommendations
  • COVID-19: Quarantine vs. Isolation handout
• Give employees, customers, and visitors what they need to clean their hands and cover their coughs and sneezes
• Perform routine environmental cleaning
• Allow employees to work from home if possible; plan for extended working from home
• Protect employees at higher risk for severe illness through supportive policies and practices
• Implement social distancing for those at work:
  • Increase physical space between onsite workers
  • Stagger work schedules
  • Limit in-person meetings
• Ensure flexible leave policies for staff who need to stay home to care for others
• Limit travel and advise employees if they must travel to take additional precautions and preparations

Information adapted from: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/guidance-business-response.html

Guidance to Prepare for Reopening

• Direct Care Services (Tanning, Tattoo, and More) - May 13, 2020
• Iowa Food Business Operating Criteria during COVID-19
• Pool Reopening Q&A Guidance

Business Resources from the Iowa Department of Public Health & CDC

• Guidance for Businesses and Employers
• Meat and Poultry Processing Workers and Employers
• Screening Algorithm
• Disinfecting Your Facility if Someone Becomes Sick
• Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection Recommendations

For additional COVID-19 guidance or consultation for Iowa businesses, contact [email protected]

COVID-19 Vaccine Planning

• Scott County Health Department's COVID-19 Vaccine Page
• COVID-19 Vaccine Planning Q&A
• 12/16/2020 COVID-19 Vaccine Update with Quad Cities Chamber: