The CDC currently recommends a quarantine period of 14 days. However, based on local circumstances and resources, the Fishers Health Department has released the following options:
Quarantine can end after Day 10 without testing and if no symptoms have been reported during daily monitoring.
When diagnostic testing resources are sufficient and available, then quarantine can end after Day 7 if a diagnostic specimen tests negative and if no symptoms were reported during daily monitoring. The specimen may be collected and tested within 48 hours before the time of planned quarantine discontinuation (e.g., in anticipation of testing delays), but quarantine cannot be discontinued earlier than after Day 7.
The Fishers Health Department interprets the CDC’s new guidance to be intended for participation in essential activities such as work and school, with the understanding that strict adherence to all provisions in the guidance must be followed, especially masking, distancing, and sanitizing.
The Fishers Health Department does not recommend that individuals participate in non-essential activities or activities where distancing, mask wearing, and sanitizing cannot be achieved during the 14-day full quarantine period, even in situations where those activities may be allowable as exceptions under the mask mandate, such as with vigorous exercise.