Here are CDC’s requirements coronavirus patients must meet before leaving quarantine
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Medical personnel talk with a person who arrived at the drive-up screening center in the South Texas Medical Center area on Monday, March 17, 2020, for people who might be infected with the coronavirus.
Medical personnel talk with a person who arrived at the drive-up screening center in the South Texas Medical Center area on Monday, March 17, 2020, for people who might be infected with the coronavirus.
Photo: Kin Man Hui /Staff Photographer
Medical personnel talk with a person who arrived at the drive-up screening center in the South Texas Medical Center area on Monday, March 17, 2020, for people who might be infected with the coronavirus.
Medical personnel talk with a person who arrived at the drive-up screening center in the South Texas Medical Center area on Monday, March 17, 2020, for people who might be infected with the coronavirus.
Photo: Kin Man Hui /Staff Photographer
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated the requirements for those under quarantine for the coronavirus.
Previously, those in quarantine had to go 48 hours without a fever and without using fever-reducing medication. Now, patients have to go fever-free for 72 hours without fever-reducing medication. This applies to those currently under quarantine and those who may be quarantined in the future.
In addition, before leaving isolation, a patient’s other symptoms — including shortness of breath or a cough — must have improved and at least seven days must have passed from when the symptoms first appeared.
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If patients have been tested positive for coronavirus, the same requirements apply and patients must have two consecutive negative tests 24 hours apart.
The decision to stop self-quarantine should always be made with your healthcare provider as well as with the state and local health departments, the CDC said.
