UW–Madison : New CDC Guidance For Isolation And Quarantine

Press release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison:

December 29, 2021

On December 27, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated recommendations for people who test positive for COVID-19 and for people who have been exposed.

In a post, Public Health Madison and Dane County offered a quick resource for navigating this new guidance. Campus will be updating information on the Covid Response page, but in the meantime, please consult the following:

Isolate at home for at least 5 days and wear a mask when around others for an additional 5 days.

Notify your close contacts.

Take steps to limit the spread of COVID in your household.

First, know that you generally need to be in close contact with someone with COVID-19 to get infected.

Close contact includes:

OR OR

If you:

OR OR

Then:

However, if you:

OR OR

Then:

You can find more information on PHMDC’s website, including what to do if someone in your household is sick: https://publichealthmdc.com/coronavirus/what-to-do-if-you-are-sick-or-possibly-exposed

Read more about making sense of the new guidance in this blog post from UWMadScience: https://uwmadscience.news.wisc.edu/health/what-should-we-make-of-the-new-cdc-guidance-for-isolation-and-quarantine/

This press release was produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The views expressed here are the author’s own.