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Activity 1: Human Coronaviruses    Directions: Drag the correct word to the correct statement and then check your results. Use the best answer for each statement. Activity 2: True or False Coronaviruses Directions: Check your understanding of the content in Chapter 8 (Human Coronaviruses) by answering these true or false questions correctly.

These safety videos, forms, checklists, downloads, and COVID-19 educational posters are meant to support your efforts to maintain a safe, clean, and COVID-free massage workplace or massage school. These materials are developed from the digital text of Preventing Disease Transmission in a Massage Practice. Information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), from

Updates were made to this content November 22, 2020. In keeping clients safe, you keep yourself safe. In keeping yourself safe, you keep clients safe. Throughout this digital text we’ve learned how to prevent disease transmission in a massage practice. This knowledge base is the key to safety. In this section we’ll talk in depth

Updates were made to this section October 14, 2020.  In Chapter 5, Maintaining a Clean Massage Workplace, we discussed cleaning supplies, cleaning the session room between clients, cleaning at the end of the day, and deep cleaning at the end of the week. We learned to handle linens properly, handle products properly, and clean common

Updates were made to this this section October 14, 2020.  To ensure the safety of clients, staff, family, and our own health we’ll need to make significant changes to our business policies and procedures. We’ll adjust or create policies related to informed consent, high-risk awareness, COVID-19 exposure, and contact tracing from the state Department of

Note: Updates were made to this section on October 14, 2020. To supercharge our massage facilities, we’ll need to reduce our sanitation burden, think carefully about ventilation, and organize the facility to promote physical distancing, hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, and cough etiquette (see Chapter 4 titled Standard Precautions for details). We’ll also want to think

Updates were made to this topic December, 2020.  In June 2020 many states lifted stay-at-home orders and many massage professionals reopened their practices. A fall surge of COVID cases required massage professionals to face another phase of restriction in areas where the health care system become overloaded. For some period to come, we’ll likely be

Note: Updates to this topic were made November 22, 2020 We already know that COVID-19 is a coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 in Wuhan, China and that has spread widely around the world in a very short time. The WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, and to date (October 13, 2020)

Coronaviruses are a large group of viruses that cause disease in animals and humans. The name, corona, comes from the Latin for “crown” because these viruses have crown-like spikes when viewed under a microscope. Seven coronaviruses are known to cause disease in humans. Four of these viruses are mild (viruses 229E, OC43, NL63 and HKU1)