“I Tested Positive for COVID-19, Now What?” COVID-19 Help Handout
If you tested positive for COVID-19, you need to stay home and isolate per the guidance provided by public health officials. This means no trips to the store or other outings, even if you do wear a face mask. If you think or know you had COVID-19, and had symptoms, you can be with others 10 days since symptoms first appeared and 24 hours has passed with no fever without fever-reducing medication and symptoms have improved. If you tested positive with no symptoms of COVID-19, you can be with others after 10 days have passed since your test date.
Keeping our community safe is everyone’s responsibility. Ask yourself these questions daily.
1. Do you or anyone in your household have symptoms of COVID-19? Symptoms include fever of 100.4 or above, cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, chills, muscle pain, sore throat, congestion, runny nose, nausea, new loss of taste or smell.
2. Have you or anyone in your household traveled outside the country or to affected areas in the United States?
3. Have you had direct contact (within 6 feet for more than 15 minutes in a 24 hour period) with anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19?
4. Is there anyone in your household under instructions to isolate due to COVID-19?