If you if you think you have a respiratory virus like COVID, influenza or RSV: 

Stay home and away from others (including people you live with who are not sick). These symptoms can include fever, chills, fatigue, cough, runny nose, and headache, among others.

  • You can go back to your normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, both are true:
    • Your symptoms are getting better overall, and
    • You have not had a fever (and are not using fever-reducing medication)

There is no longer a mandatory 5-day isolation period for COVID.