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Check these 4 factors.

Hospice agencies can use these four factors to “identify volunteers, visitors, and patients at risk for having COVID-19 infection,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services offers:

1. International travel within the last 14 days to countries with sustained community transmission. For updated information on affected countries visit: www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/index.html.
2. Signs or symptoms of a respiratory infection, such as a fever, cough, and sore throat.
3. In the last 14 days, has had contact with someone with or under investigation for COVID-19, or are ill with respiratory illness.
4. Residing in a community where community-based spread of COVID-19 is occurring.