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    • Stay home from school and other settings, including all extracurricular activities, and isolate for at least 5 full days. To calculate your child’s 5-day isolation period, day 0 is your child’s first day of symptoms or the date the positive viral test was collected (for people with no COVID-19 symptoms). Day 1 is the first full day after your child’s symptoms have developed or the first full day after the date they were tested for people with no symptoms of COVID-19.

    • If your child has or had symptoms, you can end their isolation after 5 full days if they are fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication AND their other symptoms have improved (loss of taste and smell can persist for weeks or months after recovery and need not delay the end of isolation).

      • If your child still has a fever or their other symptoms have not improved after 5 days of isolation, keep your child in isolation until they are fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication and their other symptoms have improved. Contact your healthcare provider if you have questions.

    • If your child never had symptoms, you can end their isolation 5 full days after the positive viral test has been collected.

    • Your child should continue to correctly and consistently wear a well-fitted mask around others at home and in public for 5 additional days (day 6 through day 10) after the end of their 5-day isolation period. Your child will be given an alternate lunch seat through the end of their isolation period.  If they are unable to wear a mask when around others, they should continue to isolate at home for a full 10 days.

    • For more information, please visit https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/isolation.html
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