DermResearch & COVID-19: Our Plan to Keep our Participants Healthy

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DermResearch & COVID-19: Our Plan to Keep our Participants Healthy

What We’re Doing to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19

— UPDATE for May 2020 —

As of the beginning of May, our current studies are open for enrollment and screening. As Austin slowly starts to re-open, your health and safety and that of our staff is our top priority. Our enhanced safety protocol will remain in place and we will continue limiting the traffic in and out of our clinic.

We encourage all study participants who would like more information about our safety process to call us at 512.349.0500.

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DermResearch’s number one priority is the health and safety of our participants, staff, and our larger Austin community. We are taking every precaution to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

  • We will contact all of our participants before any regularly scheduled appointments and will ask if they have a fever, shortness of breath, or coughing. If they answer yes to any of those symptoms, then our staff will reschedule their appointments.
  • Access to our clinic and waiting room will be limited to participants and DermResearch staff only.
  • All DermResearch staff are consistently washing hands and disinfecting all surfaces before and after participant visits.

Please call us at 512.349.0500 or email us if you have any questions or concerns.

 

 

You Can Help Keep Your Friends, Family, and Austin Healthy

With COVID-19 now designated as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, it’s up to all of us to help keep our Austin community healthy. Fortunately, there are some very simple things that you can do to help.

 

      • Wash your hands with soap, regularly, for at least 20 seconds. Hint: singing Happy Birthday to yourself twice is about 20 seconds. Here’s a WHO video on how to properly wash your hands.
      • If you’re not able to wash your hands immediately, use hand sanitizer. But handwashing is always the better option.
      • It can be downright difficult but try not to touch your face. On average, we touch our faces 23 times an hour!
      • Cover your entire mouth and nose with a tissue to sneeze or cough, and throw the tissue away immediately. If no tissue is available, make sure to cough or sneeze into your elbow.
      • It can benefit us all to curb non-essential travel and attendance at events, even when you feel okay. You can be asymptomatic and still pass it on to others, who may be more vulnerable.

 

For more information, please consult the CDC’s website.