We encourage you to use the Isolation and Exposure Calculators on this page and use the resources listed below.
NOTE: These calculators are intended for the general public. Special populations living and working in higher-risk settings have separate guidance.
This includes healthcare workers, individuals living in congregate settings, immunocompromised individuals, and schools. If you are in one of these categories, please
review the specific guidance or contact the CDH Call Center at (208) 321-2222. Please follow your workplace, school, and childcare guidance if stricter than what is
outlined in this tool.
ALSO: Negative and positive results from at-home rapid tests can be anonymously reported to the national Make My Test Count program HERE.
If your symptoms are improving and you have been fever free for the last 24 hours without fever reducing medication (or if you tested positive and never experienced symptoms), your isolation ends on:
.
On
, you may resume your usual activities but should continue to wear a mask around others for 5 additional days as well as take precautions to reduce the risk including social
distancing and frequent handwashing. Consult your healthcare provider about vaccination for COVID-19 if you have not already received a vaccine.
DO NOT travel until a full 10 days after your symptoms started or the date your positive test was taken if you had no symptoms.
If you were severely ill or are immunocompromised you should isolate for at least 10 days.
On
, you should get tested if available. If you have no symptoms and test negative, continue to wear a mask today and when around others for 4 additional days.
Take precautions to reduce risk, including social distancing and frequent handwashing. Consult your healthcare provider about vaccination for COVID-19.
If you develop symptoms or test positive, isolate immediately and take isolation precautions (see isolation calculator).
If you test negative, continue to wear a mask today and when around others for 4 additional days.
Take precautions to reduce risk, including social distancing and frequent handwashing.
Consult your healthcare provider about vaccination for COVID-19.
If you test positive, isolate immediately and take isolation precautions (see isolation calculator).
For ongoing exposures, Call CDH's Call Center at (208) 321-2222, M-F from 10am to 2pm.
First DATE you should test is
This is the first date you should test after exposure if asymptomatic.
The full incubation period is 2-14 days. (Incubation period is the time it takes from exposure to develop symptoms/infection).
Continue to monitor your health for the full 14 days.
Quarantine separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.
Quarantine is currently not required for people in the general public who have an exposure to someone with COVID-19.
Please follow your workplace, school, and childcare guidance if stricter than what is outlined in this tool.
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Isolation separates sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not sick.
If you test positive for COVID-19, or develop symptoms after an exposure to someone who has COVID-19, you should isolate immediately.
Please follow your workplace, school, and childcare guidance if stricter than what is outlined in this tool.
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Look for emergency warning signs* for COVID-19. If someone is showing any of these signs, seek emergency medical care immediately:
Trouble breathing
Persistent pain or pressure in the chest
New confusion
Inability to wake or stay awake
Pale, gray, or blue-colored skin, lips, or nail beds, depending on skin tone
*This list is not all possible symptoms. Please call your medical provider for any other symptoms that are severe or concerning to you.
Call 911 or call ahead to your local emergency facility: Notify the operator that you are seeking care for someone who has or may have COVID-19.
The following medical conditions or other factors may place persons at higher risk for progression to severe COVID-19:
Older age (for example, age ≥ 65 years of age)
Obesity or being overweight (for example, BMI > 25 kg/m2)
Pregnancy
Chronic kidney disease
Diabetes
Immunosuppressive disease or immunosuppressive treatment
Cardiovascular diseases (including congenital heart disease) or hypertension
People with COVID-19 have had a wide range of symptoms reported – ranging from mild symptoms to severe illness.
Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. Anyone can have mild to severe symptoms.
People with the following symptoms may have COVID-19:
Current treatments for COVID-19 require a prescription from your healthcare provider.
People have been seriously harmed and even died after taking products not approved for use to treat or prevent COVID-19,
even products approved or prescribed for other uses. Some forms of treatment are given in the hospital and some in an
outpatient setting. Therapeutics include monoclonal antibodies, along with IV and oral antivirals for prevention or
treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19. Treatment must be started within the first few days to be effective.
Talk to your healthcare provider about what option may be best for you.
Exposure and isolation can occur concurrently in a household if all of the following are implemented:
Limit contact
The person who is sick should isolate
The sick person should separate themselves from others in the home.
If possible, have the person who is sick use a separate bedroom and bathroom.
If possible, have the person who is sick stay in their own “sick room” or area and away from others.
Try to stay at least 6 feet away from the sick person.
Shared space: If you have to share space, make sure the room has good air flow. Open the window to increase air circulation.
Improving ventilation helps remove respiratory droplets from the air.
The person who is sick should wear a mask when they are around other people at home and out (including before they enter a doctor’s office).
The mask helps prevent a person who is sick from spreading the virus to others. It keeps respiratory droplets contained and from reaching other people.
Masks should not be placed on young children under age 2, anyone who has trouble breathing, or who is not able to remove the covering without help.
Caregivers
Put on a mask and ask the sick person to put on a mask before entering the room.
Clean your hands often
If you are unable to separate infectious persons from well persons in the household by following all risk reductions,
it is important to implement as many of the risk reductions as possible. Household members without symptoms should take precautions
immediately and for an additional 10 days after the infectious person is out of isolation. See information on exposure.
People you have been around during the two-day period prior to the start of your symptoms
(or if you are asymptomatic, two days before your positive COVID-19 specimen collection date),
through to the time you start isolation, are at greatest risk of infection and should be prioritized for notification.
Learn more, about identifying & talking to your close contacts, HERE.