After you test positive for COVID-19 you must remain isolated until you meet the criteria from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be released from isolation. Please stay home and isolate yourself from others to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Isolation means staying home for at least 5 days since your symptoms began, or day of your positive test if you are asymptomatic (never develop any symptoms). In order to be released after day 5 of isolation, it is strongly recommended that you continue to wear a mask around others for 5 additional days and the following criteria must be met: - You have not had a fever in the last 24 hours (without the use of fever reducing medication); and
- You do not have a cough, sneezing or other respiratory-like symptoms and other symptoms are resolving.
If you have access to an at-home test kit, we would encourage you to test at day 5 prior to releasing yourself from isolation. If you continue to have respiratory symptoms, you must remain in isolation for the full 10 days from symptom onset and can be released after 10 full days if: - You have had some improvement in symptoms; and
- You have not had a fever in the last 24 hours (without the use of fever reducing medication).
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