Updated: April 20, 2020

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In recent days, the CDC has updated their list of primary symptoms for COVID-19 to include: chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, new loss of taste or smell.

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As such, TAG is updating its General Screening Questionnaire by moving those symptoms up to primary symptoms. 

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General Screening Questions

1. Employee’s first name:

2. Is the employee experiencing or showing symptoms in the last 24 hours?

   • Primary symptoms:

     • Fever?

     • Cough?

     • Difficulty breathing?

     • Chills

     • Repeated shaking with chills

     • Muscle pain

     • Headache

     • Sore throat

     • Anosmia (loss of smell or taste)

   • Secondary symptoms:

     • Tiredness or fatigue

     • Sore throat

     • Gastrointestinal illness (diarrhea)

3. Has the employee been exposed to a person (someone in their household, intimate partner, or close-contact) with symptomatic COVID-19 during period from 48 hours before symptoms onset until meeting the criteria for discontinuing home isolation?   This can be a laboratory-confirmed disease or a clinically compatible illness (fever, cough, or shortness of breath) in a state or territory with widespread community transmission). If so, please explain.

   • How and when did the exposure happen?

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You can now find all our downloadable resources available online (for free) here. This includes posters and infographics for the following:

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• Social Distancing Posters (in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese, and Vietnamese)

• Best Practices for Mask Usage (in English, Spanish)

• Preventive Controls & Preventive Measures (in English, Spanish)

• Preventive Control Hierarchy Pyramid (in English, Spanish, and Portuguese)

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Please let us know if you have any material requests or additional language. Additionally, we have differing formats for screen-viewing, print-viewing, gray-scale, and other formats (upon request).

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Please find the resources to download, here!

If you have any trouble with any of the resources, please contact us to let us know!

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April 17 Update: Based on both scientific research and anecdotal evidence, there is increasing credible evidence for anosmia (loss of sense of smell) to be a symptom of COVID-19. Earlier this month, based on research from ENT UK and the American Society of Otolaryngology, we recommended that wellness screenings include anosmia as a secondary symptom. With further scientific evidence published this week, we have, once more, updated our recommendations to include questions focused on loss of smell as part of a Wellness Screening Question (for Employees and Visitors):

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1.     If loss of smell is reported (not related to allergies, congestion, etc.), send the person home to self-quarantine.

2.     At this point, we do not recommend that close contacts be sought or sent home.

 

We will continue to follow the science and update our recommendations if and as applicable.