Preventing COVID-19 Outbreaks Goes Beyond the Workplace

摘要

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, health organizations have published guidelines for preventing the transmission of novel coronavirus, depending on the setting (e.g., home, work, school, etc.). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the latest revision of its "Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers Responding to Coronavirus Disease 2019" in May 2020. This document is a valuable reference for companies to learn the latest cleaning techniques and to identify areas and job tasks with potential exposures to COVID-19. However, while this guide and many others focus on mitigating transmission in the workplace, they fail to discuss how transportation to and from the job and what workers do with their free time away from their job affects transmission of the virus. Failure to address these two points can result in the introduction of the virus into the workplace.