Discontinuing Isolation for those who tested positive for Covid-19
(Monroe, Fla.) –The Florida Department of Health in Monroe County reminds residents that the “CDC’s symptom-based strategy” is followed when determining when COVID-19-positive individuals can resume their normal activities of work, school, travel, etc. Persons with COVID-19 may discontinue isolation under the following conditions:
- At least 10 days* have passed since symptom onset/ or test date in those showing no symptoms and
- At least 24 hours have passed since resolution of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and
- Other symptoms have improved. There are some caveats to this; You can read them at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/disposition-in-home-patients.html.
Close Contacts to COVID-19 Case
If you have been in close contact (within six feet for 15 minutes) with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, or in the 48 hours prior to them showing symptoms, please visit the links that follow from the CDC.
*A negative test does not negate the need to quarantine if you have known close contact to someone who tested positive due to the incubation period of the virus being 2-14 days.
For more information, visit: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/quarantine.html and https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/steps-when-sick.html.
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