Staying COVID Safe This Christmas

Posted on December 10th, 2020

With COVID-19 infections still high, it is vital that we try to reduce the spread of infections in people’s homes over Christmas.

To see how you can help reduce the risk of infection over the festive period, take the Germ Defence quiz to test your knowledge and get tips how to protect celebrate safely and protect vulnerable members of the family. To get started, follow this link: www.germdefence.org/index.html?src=D81049

Germ Defence is a website that gives simple advice to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the home. It was designed by doctors, scientists and psychologists and was tested with 20,000 people during the swine ‘flu pandemic in 2009. It has recently been updated for COVID-19.

During the swine ‘flu pandemic, people who used Germ Defence had fewer cold/flu infections and they were less severe. People also saw their doctor less often. The team behind Germ Defence have updated their website for COVID-19 – which is caught in the same way as other viruses – and now want to find out how effective Germ Defence is during this pandemic.

Although Germ Defence is collecting anonymous data produced by the  website, it won’t be collecting any personal data about anyone. We won’t be able to link this website data to any individual, and the anonymous data we do collect will only be used for research purposes. You will not be contacted after using Germ Defence and do not need to sign up.