Understanding the CDC’s Updated Covid Isolation Guidance

For the first time since 2021, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its COVID isolation guidance.

Guidance: “stay home and away from others (including people you live with who are not sick) if you have respiratory virus symptoms that aren’t better explained by another cause.” You can resume normal activities once your symptoms are improving and you’ve been fever-free WITHOUT the aid of fever-reducing medications for at least 24 hours.
For the five days after you resume your normal activities, you should take extra precautions, like wearing a well-fitting mask and maintaining distance from others, gathering outdoors or in a well-ventilated area, cleaning hands and high-touched surfaces often, and testing when possible before gathering with others. If symptoms or fever return, you should start back at square one: staying home and away from others until you’ve been improving and fever free for at least 24 hours.

The CDC also recently recommended that people over 65 receive an additional dose of the 2023-24 COVID vaccine. You may receive the second vaccine at least four (4) months after your most recent dose.
(For people in that age group who haven’t had the 2023-24 vaccine, there’s no need to wait. You can receive your shot now to be protected through the spring.)

For more information or to schedule an appointment for your COVID vaccine please call 304-873-1531.