Determining exposure risk and quarantine or isolation measures
If you have been exposed to some who has tested positive for COVID and/or who is being tested for COVID 19 please notify your leader as soon as possible. Not everyone who is exposed needs to quarantine and/or be tested. There are CDC protocols your leader and the Infection Control Preventionist can use to determine if you need to quarantine from work.
Close Contact through proximity and duration of exposure: Someone who was less than 6 feet away from an infected person (laboratory-confirmed or a clinical diagnosis) for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period (for example, three individual 5-minute exposures for a total of 15 minutes).
If you were exposed to someone with COVID 19 and you are up to date on COVID 19 vaccinations (See CDC up to date definitions below)
- If your job position allows you to work from home it is safest to do so for at least 5 days and seek testing on day 5
- If you hold a critical staffing position and are unable to work from home wear a mask around others for 10 days and seek testing on day 5
- If you develop symptoms you must stay home and pursue testing
If you were exposed to someone with COVID 19 and you are not up to date on COVID 19 vaccinations
- Stay home for 5 days (Quarantine)/work from home if your job position allows, after that continue to wear a mask around others for an additional 5 days
- Test on day 5
- If you develop symptoms you must stay home and pursue testing
If you were exposed to someone with COVID 19 and you had confirmed COVID 19 within the past 90 days (tested positive with a viral test)
- No need to quarantine
- Watch for symptoms for 10 days after exposure
- If you develop symptoms you must stay home and pursue testing
If you test Positive for COVID 19 (Isolate), regardless of vaccination status
- Stay home for 5 days
- If you have no symptoms or your symptoms are resolving after 5 days, you can leave your house
- Continue to wear a mask around other for additional 5 days
- If you have a fever, you must continue to isolate until your fever has resolved for at least 24hrs without the use of fever reducing medications
- All positive team members must have a physician note to return to work
Employee compensation
Required time off for a high risk community exposure will be managed and paid as sick time through the Team Member’s PTO. Your leader and Human Resources can assist with any questions.
CDC COVID 19 Vaccination Up to Date Definition
Pfizer-BioNTech
Primary Series: 2 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech given 3–8 weeks apart
Fully Vaccinated: 2 weeks after final dose in primary series
Boosters:
1st booster, preferably of either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
- For most people at least 5 months after the final dose in the primary series
2nd booster of either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
- For adults ages 50 years and older at least 4 months after the 1st booster
Up to Date: Immediately after getting all boosters recommended for you
Moderna
Primary Series: 2 doses of Moderna given 4–8 weeks apart
Fully Vaccinated: 2 weeks after final dose in primary series
Boosters:
1st booster, preferably of either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
- For most people at least 5 months after the final dose in the primary series
2nd booster of either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
- For adults ages 50 years and older at least 4 months after the 1st booster
Up to Date: Immediately after getting all boosters recommended for you
Johnson & Johnson
Primary Series: 1 dose of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen
Fully Vaccinated: 2 weeks after vaccination
Boosters:
1st booster, preferably of either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
- For most people at least 2 months after a J&J/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine
2nd booster of either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
- For adults ages 50 years and older at least 4 months after the 1st booster
Up to Date: Immediately after getting all boosters recommended for you