COVID-19 Guidelines for Students and Staff | Spring 2024

CDPH COVID-19 Isolation Guidance

Recommendations for People who Test Positive

Recommendations for Close Contacts of Cases

Stay home if you have COVID-19 symptoms, until you have not had a fever for 24 hours without using fever reducing medication AND other COVID-19 symptoms​ are mild and improving.​

• ​​​​​​​​​If you do not have symptoms, you should follow the recommendations below to reduce exposure to others.
• A negative test is not required to return.

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It is recommended that you mask when you are around other people indoors for the 10 days* after you become sick or test positive (if no symptoms). You may remove your mask sooner than 10 days if you have two sequential negative tests at least one day apart. Day 0 is symptom onset date or positive test date.

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Avoid contact with people at higher-risk for severe COVID-19 for 10 days*. Higher-risk individuals include the elderly, those who live in congregate care facilities, those who have immunocompromising conditions, and that put them at higher risk for serious illness.

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Seek Treatment​. If you have symptoms, particularly if you are at higher risk for severe COVID-19, speak with a healthcare provider as soon as you test positive. You may be eligible for antiviral medicines or other treatments for COVID-19. COVID-19 antiviral medicines work best if taken as soon as possible, and within 5-7 days from when symptoms start.

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*The potential infectious period is 2 days before the date of symptoms began or the positive test date (if no symptoms) through Day 10. (Day 0 is the symptom onset date or positive test date).

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Updated 1/15/2024

If you have new COVID-19 symptoms, you should test and mask right away.

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If you do not have symptoms, and are at higher risk of severe COVID-19 infection and would benefit from treatment, you should test within 5 days.

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If you do not have symptoms and have contact with people who are at higher risk for severe infection, you should mask indoors when around such people for 10 days. Consider testing within 5 days after the last exposure date (Day 0) and before contact with higher-risk people.

COVID-19 Testing

UPDATED CDPH COVID-1​9 tes​​ting guidance​ here.

• Diagnostic testing is recommended for all people with new symptoms of COVID-19.
• Diagnostic testing is recommended for exposed people without symptoms who are at higher-risk of severe COVID-19 infection and may benefit from treatment if infected or who have contact with people at higher-risk for severe infection
• At-home tests can be used for all testing scenarios.

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Expiration Extension Dates for At-home tests

• InteliSwab Extension Dates here

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• FDA extensions: At-home tests here

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