What to do
If you feel sick
- Start medicine within 5 days of feeling sick. Medicine can stop the illness from getting serious. COVID-19 medicine is recommended for most adults and some teens.
- Stay home until you feel better and have not had a fever for 24 hours without using fever reducing medication. Learn more about preventing spread when you are sick from the CDC.
- When you go back to your normal activities, take added precaution over the next 5 days. This includes taking steps for cleaner air, hand washing, covering your mouth to cough or sneeze, masks, physical distancing, and testing when you will be around other people indoors.
Learn about recommendations for high-risk settings
Staff in healthcare settings should follow the recommendations from the California Department of Public Health.
Non-healthcare settings at higher risk for COVID-19 transmission and outbreaks (like residential, adult, and senior care facilities, shelters, and jails) may continue to implement additional requirements that are more protective than the guidance for the general public.