COVID-19: ADULT SCHOOL PROCEDURES

Take Home Rapid Tests are available in the school offices until test kits run out.

COVID-19 symptoms include: fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath/difficulty breathing, sore throat, fatigue, muscle or body aches,
headache, loss of taste or smell, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea.

PERSON WITH A COVID-19 POSITIVE TEST

Individuals with Symptoms

• Remain at home for at least 24 hours from the day of symptom onset.
• May return if 24 hours have passed with no fever without the use of
  fever-reducing medications AND symptoms are mild and improving.
• Recommended to wear a mask when around other people indoors for the 10 days after you
  became sick or tested positive. You may remove a mask sooner than 10 days
  if you have two sequential negative tests at least one day apart.
• Staff are required to wear a mask at work for the 10 days after you became sick
  or tested positive. 

Individuals with No Symptoms

• There is no required isolation or exclusion.
• If you develop symptoms later, follow the symptom guidelines above.
• Recommended to wear a mask when around other people indoors for the 10 days after you
  became sick or tested positive. You may remove a mask sooner than 10 days
  if you have two sequential negative tests at least one day apart. 
• Staff are required to wear a mask at work for the 10 days after you became sick
  or tested positive. 

CLOSE CONTACT TO A PERSON WITH COVID-19

• May continue to attend school/work as long as they are not symptomatic.
• Students and staff with symptoms must stay home and get tested immediately.
• Students and staff with no symptoms who are also at a higher risk for severe
  COVID-19 are encouraged to test within 5 days. 
• If you are going to have contact with people who are at higher risk for severe
  COVID-19, you are encouraged to mask indoors around such people for 10
  days and consider testing within 5 days after the last exposure and before
  contact with high-risk people. 
• Those with symptoms can return if test is negative once symptoms improve and no
  fever for at least 24 hours without fever reducing medication.