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Public health and emergency response professionals have provided recommendations to help you safely prepare, evacuate, and shelter for severe storms while protecting yourself and others from COVID-19.
Here are some tips to help you and your family stay safe during hurricane season this year.
• Give yourself more time than usual to prepare your emergency food, water, and medicine supplies. Home delivery is the safest choice for buying disaster supplies; however, that may not be an option for everyone. If in-person shopping is your only choice, take steps to protect your and others’ health when running essential errands.
• Protect yourself and others when filling prescriptions by limiting in-person visits to the pharmacy. Sign up for mail order delivery or call in your prescription ahead of time and use drive-through windows or curbside pickup, if available.
• Pay attention to local guidance about updated plans for evacuations and shelters, including potential shelters for your pets.
• If you need to evacuate, prepare a “go kit” with personal items you cannot live without during an emergency. Include items that can help protect you and others from COVID-19, such as hand sanitizer, or bar or liquid soap, and two cloth face coverings for each person. Face covers should not be used by children under the age of 2 years old. They also should not be used by people having trouble breathing, or who are unconscious, incapacitated, or unable to remove the mask without assistance.
• When checking on neighbors and friends, be sure to follow social distancing recommendations (staying at least six (6) feet, about two (2) arms’ length, from others) and other CDC recommendations to protect yourself and others.
• If you need to go to a disaster shelter, follow the CDC recommendations for staying safe and healthy in a public disaster shelter during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: www.CDC.gov
