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Additional Information: Managing Through COVID-19

POSTED DECEMBER 7, 2020 – From the Jefferson County Health Department:

• JCHD – Options for Quarantine After Exposure to Covid-19 – December 7, 2020

• Press Release – Changes to Quarantine Guidance – JCHD – December 7, 2020

What is Self-Quarantine?

People who have been exposed to the new coronavirus and who are at risk for coming down with COVID-19 might practice self-quarantine. Health experts recommend that self-quarantine lasts 14 days. Two weeks provides enough time for them to know whether or not they will become ill and be contagious to other people. You might be asked to practice self-quarantine if you have recently returned from traveling to a part of the country or the world where COVID-19 is spreading rapidly, or if you have knowingly been exposed to an infected person.