The commercial website Bankrate.com has a good article on safety tips for senior drivers. Check it out. Here is anexcerpt:
What can I do?
The CDC provides extra guidance for those using public forms of transportation, who want to do what they can for the safety of themselves and others.
- Always use a mask and wear gloves if you expect to touch any surfaces during your outing.
- Avoid unmasked drivers and passengers.
- Use social distancing when in public, always allowing for a distance of six feet between you and others. Allow for as much of a distance as possible between you and the driver, as well as other passengers.
- Refrain from touching surfaces that could spread bacteria or germs, such as door frames, windows, subway poles, and pay terminals.
- If you must touch surfaces, use an EPA-approved hand sanitizer or disinfectant afterward, to kill germs that may have transferred to your person.
- Avoid contact through touchless payments, instead using your own phone to schedule rides or adjust orders.
- Improve ventilation wherever possible, either by opening windows or requesting that the driver put the air on a non-recirculation mode.
- If you are not feeling well, stay home. Even if you do not have COVID-19, an immune system weakened by illness of any kind can make you more susceptible to contracting other viruses or infections.

