Instructions for Self-Quarantine and Self-Isolation from Autumn Road Family Practice

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.

Self-quarantine involves:

• Using standard hygiene and washing hands frequently

• Not sharing things like towels and utensils

• Staying at home. This includes having someone buy your groceries and leave them at the door or having them delivered.

• Not having visitors

• Staying at least 6 feet away from other people in your household

Once your quarantine period has ended, if you do not have symptoms, follow your doctor’s instructions on how to return to your normal routine.

Isolation

For people who are confirmed, or suspected, to have COVID-19, isolation is appropriate. Isolation is a health care term that means keeping people who are infected with a contagious illness away from those who are not infected.

To practice isolation:

• Household members should stay in another room or be separated from the patient as much as possible.

• Monitor your symptoms. If you become sicker, contact your provider (501-227-6363) for further instructions.

  If you feel you are developing a medical emergency and you need to call 911, notify the dispatch personnel

  that you are being monitored for COVID-19.