Here’s everything you need to know if you were exposed to COVID-19 during the holiday season.
A rapid test will give you results within minutes, but a PCR test -- which takes longer -- is more sensitive and can detect lower amounts of the virus if it is present. The CDC has more information about COVID-19 testingThe Biden administration is preparing to mail at-home COVID-19 tests to any household that requests one, starting next month.Regardless of whether you are fully vaccinated or not, if you test positive for COVID-19, you are required to go into isolation.
No one has been immune to the stress and isolation of this past year. Not even Dr. Anthony Fauci. The nation’s leading infectious disease expert offered his advice to young people who are grieving the loss of some of their life’s milestones as the pandemic enters a new year.andAccording to the latest LA County guidance, if you had no symptoms, your isolation period starts with"day 0" on the day you test positive, and ends after day 10.
If you use a county-provided, at-home testing kit provided by Fulgent, according to the Los Angeles Department of Health Services, then Fulgent reports your case, and you don't need to do anything else.
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