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Employees may return when 24 hours have passed with no fever, without the use of fever reducing medications, and symptoms are mild and improving. In addition, when the excluded employee returns, they must continue to wear a mask for 10 days from symptom onset.
Follow CDC guidance for isolation, and notify your manager. After isolating for five full days, below are the opportunities to test in order to return to work via a PCR or antigen test. If the test result is negative, you can return to work on day 6, pending resolving symptoms and no fever for 24 hours.
If the day 6-, 7-, 8-, or 9-day test comes back negative, whichever day comes first, you can return to work the following day, pending resolving symptoms and no fever for 24 hours. If your day 6-, 7-, 8-, or 9- test comes back positive, you must remain in isolation until the following day.
Avoid meeting people who are at very high risk for 10 days. This starts from the day you first had symptoms. This is because you may still be infectious for up to 10 days.
Isolate for 5 days regardless of vaccination status. Only leave isolation after 5 days if you have no symptoms or your symptoms are improving, including at least 24 hours without a fever. Continue to wear a mask around others until at least day 11 and avoid others who may get severely ill from COVID.
Employees who refuse to test and have symptoms, with or without a fever, must be excluded until at least 24 hours have passed from the onset of symptoms. Employees may return when 24 hours have passed with no fever, without the use of fever reducing medications, and symptoms are mild and improving.
You should: Stay home for 5 days. After that continue to wear a mask around others for 5 additional days. If you can't quarantine you must wear a mask for 10 days. Test on day 5 if possible.
Many people will no longer be infectious to others after 5 days, but you can be infectious for up to 10 days.
You should isolate for at least 5 days counting from the day you began feeling sick (Day 0 is the day you began feeling sick; Day 1 is the next day). If you have no symptoms, then isolate for 5 full days after the day you tested positive (Day 0 is the day you took your positive test; Day 1 is the day after).
You have had no fever for at least 72 hours (that is three full days of no fever without the use medicine that reduces fevers) AND. Other symptoms have improved (for example, when your cough or shortness of breath have improved) AND. At least seven days have passed since your symptoms first appeared.