NOTE: Please contact your place of employment or school for their current guidelines.

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If you tested positive for COVID-19, you may receive a letter, text or call from the Winnebago County Health Department. Guidance for anyone with COVID-19 can be found in this letter from our health department and in the information below. If you have questions, please contact our COVID-19 Hotline at 920-232-3026.

There are many possible symptoms of COVID-19, including fever, cough, or shortness of breath. Click above for more information on what to do if you were exposed to COVID-19, are feeling sick, or were diagnosed with COVID-19.

Isolation vs. Quarantine:

• You quarantine when you might have been exposed to the virus and may have been infected. Quarantine and stay away from others if you have been in close contact (within 6 feet of someone for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period) with someone who has COVID-19, unless you have been fully vaccinated. Click here for full details.

• You isolate when you are sick or when you have COVID-19, even if you don’t have symptoms. Stay home, except for getting medical care. Notify your close contacts. Read this letter from the Winnebago County Health Department (Spanish). Click here for full details. 

What is a close contact:

An infected person can spread COVID-19 starting two days before they have symptoms or two days before testing if they do not have symptoms. For this reason, "close contacts" include anyone in contact with a person with COVID-19 during the two days prior to symptoms or testing, until they meet the criteria to end isolation.

Close contact includes:

• Living with or caring for a person with confirmed COVID-19, OR
• Being within six feet of a person with confirmed COVID-19 for about 15 minutes (with or without a mask), OR
• Someone with COVID-19 coughing on you, kissing you, sharing utensils with you or you had direct contact with their body secretions.
• If you and/or the person with COVID-19 was wearing a face mask or covering during any of the above situations, you are still considered a close contact.
• Read more about close contacts here.

Additional Resources:

• If you need documentation for work/school/travel regarding isolation and quarantine dates visit this page.
• Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (Source: CDC)

• CDC Guidance: What to do if you're sick (Source: CDC)
• Quarantine & Isolation Guidance (Source: CDC)
• What to do if you are sick or caring for someone who is sick (Source: CDC)
• Cleaning and disinfecting your home when someone is sick (Source: CDC)
• How to Avoid Exposure When Living with Someone Diagnosed with COVID-19(link is external) (Source: DHS)
• Guide to masks (Source: CDC)
• Vaccine information and clinic locations: www.wcvaccine.org
• If you’ve fully recovered from a verified COVID-19 diagnosis, your convalescent plasma donation may help up to 4 coronavirus patients in need! Donors are critically needed in Wisconsin. Learn more from the Red Cross and The Community Blood Center.

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