COVID-19 Guidance

Guidance on COVID-19 and other Respiratory Illnesses

Current guidance from the CDC and NYSDOH no longer requires isolation or quarantine for COVID positive cases. Persons experiencing COVID should follow guidance for all respiratory virus illnesses:

When you have a respiratory virus infection, you can spread it to others.
How long someone can spread a virus depends on different factors, including how sick they are (severity) and how long their illness lasts (duration). This is not the same for everyone.
When, for at least 24 hours, your symptoms are getting better overall and you have not had a fever (and are not using fever-reducing medication), you are typically less contagious, but it still takes more time for your body to fully get rid of the virus.
Taking precautions for the next 5 days can help reduce this risk of spreading the virus. After this 5-day period, you are typically much less likely to be contagious. However, some people, especially people with weakened immune systems, can continue to spread the virus for a longer period of time.
For COVID-19, taking a test can help you know how likely you are to spread the virus. Like the Flu, a positive test for COVID tends to mean it is more likely that you can spread the virus to others.