Completion of Self-Quarantine/Isolation

If you have been self-quarantined or self-isolated, you must be approved to return to campus before resuming your normal school, work, and related activities.

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Your request to return will be evaluated based upon which of these circumstances describes your situation:

1. If you are under self-isolation because you have lab confirmed or suspected COVID-19 AND you have exhibited Coronavirus Symptoms:
   • At least 24 hours have passed since last fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and improvement in symptoms; and,
   • At least 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared
2. If you are under self-isolation because you have lab confirmed COVID-19 AND you have not exhibited Coronavirus Symptoms:
   • 10 days have passed since the date of your first positive COVID-19 diagnostic test (assuming you have not subsequently developed symptoms since such positive test)
3. If you are under self-quarantine/isolation because of potential exposure AND you have exhibited Coronavirus Symptoms:
   • At least 24 hours have passed since last fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and improvement in symptoms; and,
   • At least 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared
4. If you are under self-quarantine because of potential exposure to someone with lab-confirmed or diagnosed COVID-19 AND you have not exhibited Coronavirus Symptoms:
   • At least 14 days have passed since the beginning of self-quarantine (the date you had close contact), no symptoms have appeared, and you have had no further close contact with that individual or anyone else with COVID-19.
   •  However:
     • If you live with someone with COVID-19 and have not been able to avoid continuous close contact with them, at least 14 days have passed since the person with COVID-19 has completed self-isolation (see #1 or #2 above)
     • If you live with someone with COVID-19 and have avoided continued contact with that household member, but you have had close contact with another household member who has COVID-19, at least 14 days have passed since the last close contact with this additional household member
5. If you are under self-quarantine/isolation because you have exhibited one or more Coronavirus Symptoms (regardless of whether you have been diagnosed with COVID-19):
   • At least 24 hours have passed since last fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and improvement in symptoms; and,
   • At least 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared

Note:

Local public health authorities determine and establish the quarantine options for their jurisdictions. CDC currently recommends a quarantine period of 14 days. However, based on local circumstances and resources, the following options to shorten quarantine are acceptable alternatives.

• Quarantine can end after Day 10 without testing and if no symptoms have been reported during daily monitoring.

  • With this strategy, residual post-quarantine transmission risk is estimated to be about 1% with an upper limit of about 10%.

• When diagnostic testing resources are sufficient and available (see bullet 3, below), 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.

  • With this strategy, the residual post-quarantine transmission risk is estimated to be about 5% with an upper limit of about 12%.

In both cases, additional criteria (e.g., continued symptom monitoring and masking through Day 14) must be met and are outlined in the full text.

Content source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Written approval is required before any MATC community member may return to campus after self-quarantine or self-isolation.