Quarantine Instructions

If you are within 6 feet of the COVID positive household member for 15 cumulative minutes (over the period of a day) or more, you have been re-exposed and your 10-day quarantine must start over.

• Stay home. 
• You can telework if offered by your employer/school.
• If you are a health care worker, emergency response worker, or social service worker who works face-to-face with clients in the child welfare system or in assisted living facilities: 

                         - During critical staffing shortages when there are not     

                           enough staff to provide safe patient care, essential critical 

                           infrastructure workers in the following categories are not 

                           prohibited from returning after Day 7 from the date of last 

                           exposure if they have received a negative PCR test result 

                           from a specimen collected after Day 5. 

You must isolate and cannot go to work/school. 

COVID-19 symptoms are similar to the flu and involve fever, coughing, shortness  of  breath  or  difficulty  breathing,  chills,  repeated  shaking  with  chills,  fatigue, muscle  pain, headache, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea, or new loss of taste or smell.

Symptoms can be mild or severe. Those who have COVID-19 can have fever, cough, and difficulty breathing. People who are very ill with COVID-19 can have pneumonia. 

You can return to work/school when all of these are true:

• It has been 10 days from the start of symptoms
• You have not had a fever for 24 hours without the help of medicine
•  Cough and shortness of breath have significantly improved