We join our Choptank Health partners in wishing you and your family a safe and healthy holiday season and new year. To help keep you and your family as healthy as you can be, our Choptank Health partners are providing these three tips for staying well over the holidays:
1. Wash Your Hands – You can help your children learn the importance of hand-washing by
making it a family activity. Good hand
hygiene is one of the most effective
ways to stop the spread of infection!
Follow these five steps every time:
1. Wet your hands with clean,
running water (warm or cold), turn
off the tap, and apply soap.
2. Lather your hands by rubbing
them together with the soap.
Lather the backs of your hands,
between your fingers, and under
your nails.
3. Scrub your hands for at least 20
seconds. Need a timer? Hum
the “Happy Birthday” song
from beginning to end twice.
4. Rinse your hands well under
clean, running water.
5. Dry your hands using a clean
towel or an air dryer.
2. If you have respiratory symptoms (cough, congestion, sneezing, sore throat, etc.) please
consider testing yourself for COVID and wearing a mask. Masks help protect us from
illnesses that are spread through respiratory droplets! Click on this link to sign up for your
free tests: https://www.covid.gov/tests.
3. Get your Flu Shot and updated COVID-19 vaccine, with both usually given at the same time.
You can learn more by reaching out to your health care or school-based healthcare provider or
finding locations for vaccines near you at www.vaccines.gov.
You can learn more about the best practices for handwashing at www.cdc.gov/handwashing/.
