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Make a Home COVID-19 Plan

You plan for vacations, weddings; why not plan for the coronavirus?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a Web page that focuses on what families can do to have a COVID-19 Home Plan.

Only about 70 million Americans are currently under orders by governors to "stay at home" due to the coronavirus. That means there are around 260M people still "out and about" in our nation. It is possible that the residents of every state and community could have the "stay at home" order issued to them. So, the other 79 percent of people not under lockdown need to use this time to first plan and then get ready.

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.