COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool – COVID-19

As you use this risk assessment tool, including the simple questionnaire at the end, the following four words should guide you: People, Space, Time, and Place.

COVID-19 is easily spread in respiratory droplets by coughing or sneezing. COVID-19 can also be passed along if you touch something contaminated with the virus and then touch your mouth, nose or eyes with unwashed hands. Symptoms may take up to 14 days to appear after a person becomes infected with COVID-19 virus. Some people who get infected with COVID-19 may have mild symptoms or not be sick at all. However, they can still spread the disease to others.

If you are up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines, you can move about more. This includes increasing your social interactions, going out for groceries and other necessities, and resuming other activities you did prior to the pandemic. Make sure you maintain physical distancing, wear a mask, and wash your hands. In communities where there is a low spread of COVID-19 and the full school reopening model is in effect, attendance at school is recommended for all children and youth including those with immunocompromising conditions who would usually attend school.

Even though you have done your best to avoid COVID-19, you may become infected. If you are worried you may have COVID-19:

Everyone has a role to play in reducing the spread of disease and keeping our community healthy. You can help by:

Being able to distinguish between higher and lower COVID -19 risk situations should help you make good decisions. An example of a high-risk setting for COVID-19 transmission is a group activity in an indoor enclosed space for a prolonged period of close contact. The risk associated with a setting that fits this description can be reduced by moving the event outside, increasing natural or mechanical ventilation inside, shortening the duration of the event, physically distancing and/or wearing a non-medical mask.

It is important to make decisions using reliable and up-to-date information.

As you use this risk assessment tool, including the simple questionnaire at the end, the following four words should guide you: People, Space, Time, and Place.

Interacting with more people raises the risk of spread of COVID-19. Consider reducing the number of people you interact with.

(Close contact is defined as within 2 meters (or two arm lengths))

The closer you are to people, the greater the risk of spread of COVID-19. To lower your risk you should consider physical distancing with a minimum distance of 2 meters between you and other people.

(Prolonged contact is defined as greater than 15 minutes.)

If you answered yes, you are at a higher risk of COVID-19 and you should consider reducing the time you spend interacting with people not in your social bubble.

If yes, you are at a higher risk of COVID-19. Interactions in an indoor setting are of greater risk than interactions taking place outdoors. Where possible, interact with other people outdoors. If the setting must be indoors, practice physical distancing and wear a non-medical mask.

If you answered yes, and have not received two doses of vaccine, you should consider limiting your interactions to a small number of people, preferably outdoors, avoid close interactions with others, physical distance, wear a non-medical mask and wash your hands frequently.

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COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool - COVID-19