![]() Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze.Contact your primary care physician if there are concerns. Monitor your symptoms throughout the day.If you must go to a medical appointment, call ahead and make arrangements.(Close contact is defined as closer than a 6-foot distance between you and others.) Do not share utensils, toothbrushes, water bottles, pillows, and avoid shaking hands, kissing, hugging, or other intimate activities. ![]() If your child attends school or daycare, have them remain home.Avoid crowds, public events, meetings, social activities, or other group activities.Avoid using public transportation, ride-sharing, or taxis.Do not go to work, school or public areas.If seeking medical advice, please contact your primary care doctor and inform them of your situation. If at any time you feel symptomatic, please contact the health department.know ahead of time that they have been in contact with a positive case. Before going in for care, please let any doctor’s offices, emergency rooms, etc.If anyone else in your home becomes ill, they should discuss this with your department of health, and their primary care doctor.Everyone should clean their hands frequently, stay more than 6 feet apart as much as possible, and not share personal items, including water bottles, utensils, etc. During a period of self-quarantine, we recommend you limit your contact with people in your home as much as possible.What does this mean for my household contacts? If you self-quarantine and/or mask for 10 days after your last exposure to someone diagnosed with COVID-19, and have developed no new or worsening symptoms, then you likely were not exposed enough to cause an infection. What happens if I have no symptoms by 10 days from my exposure? If you have new symptoms, you should consider being retested. You should continue to pay attention to your body for symptoms (especially if you develop a new fever or cough) for 10 days from the day you were exposed. You should still be especially careful with distancing, masking, hand-washing, and monitoring for new symptoms for the full 14 days post-exposure. It is important to remember that it is still possible to develop the disease up to 14 days from exposure.After a five-day period of self-quarantine, we recommend that you wear a well-fitted mask around others for an additional five days. Self-quarantine means you should stop all in-person contact with people outside your home, and not leave your home unless for essential medical care. If you are NOT up-to-date on your COVID-19 vaccination, you should self-quarantine for five days.We recommend that you wear a well-fitting mask around others for 10 days. If you are up-to-date on your COVID-19 vaccination, you do not need to quarantine.However, if you were tested before a full 10 days of quarantine, it is possible that you were exposed, and will develop new symptoms, but it is too early to find the infection with this test. If you were tested because you were exposed, but have not had any symptoms so far, then this means that we cannot currently find any evidence that you are infected.If you were tested because you are having symptoms (such as fever or cough), it is likely that those symptoms are NOT being caused by COVID-19. ![]() What does this mean?Ī negative test means that we have NOT found evidence of the virus which causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the swab from the back of your nose/mouth. Please note that this is a PCR test and not a rapid antigen test. The test has been run at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia's lab, and the results have come back as NEGATIVE. You will need a new appointment to be scheduled, and even before we contact you, you are welcome to re-schedule that test online here.
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