COVID-19 Guidance for Health Care Professionals

If You Suspect Your Patient Has COVID-19

• Give the patient a surgical mask

• Notify facility infection control personnel

• Use standard precautions, contact precautions, airborne precautions and use eye protection when entering the room

• Evaluate the patient in a private room with the door closed, ideally in an airborne infection isolation room

Submit PPE request if you anticipate depletion of any COVID-19 specific resource stocks within the next 7 days. 

COVID-19 PPE Resource Request Form 

Find Detailed COVID-19 Information by Topic

• Alerts and Advisories

• Infectious Disease Reporting

• Long-term Care Facilities

• Therapeutics

• Vaccines

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Resources

• COVID-19 Information for Health Care Workers

• Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity, calls and webinars

• COVID-19 Print Resources

• Health care workers with general COVID-19 questions can call: (800) CDC-INFO (800-232-4636)

• Reporting Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), call: (707) 488-7100