- Germantown High School
- COVID Exposure Information
Action Steps for Covid-19
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Tested positive for COVID-19.
- The student must isolate for a minimum of 5 days after onset and may be released after they are (without fever-reducing medication) and show improvement in symptoms.
- Cases without symptoms should isolate through 5 days after their specimen collection date.
- Regardless of symptoms, the student should wear a mask when around others for 10 days following onset/specimen collection.
- The student is not required to provide a clearance from a medical provider or an SCS school-based health center to return to school.
- Some severely ill students may need to isolate themselves for a longer period.
- Lingering cough or loss of taste or smell should not prevent a case from being released from isolation.
- If a follow-up PCR test is positive, cases do not need to re-enter isolation as long as they have completed the recommended 5-day isolation and had symptom resolution for a minimum of 24 hours.
Any questions, the Contact Tracing Team can be reached at 416-1730.
Action Steps for a student who has been identified as a "close contact" to a positive person.
Non-boosted or Unvaccinated Close Contacts
Students should quarantine after exposure to a COVID-19 case if they:
Are unvaccinated OR
- They have completed the primary series of Pfizer or Moderna vaccine over 6 months ago and are not boosted.
- If symptoms develop, close contacts must isolate and be tested for COVID-19 immediately.
- Close contacts should quarantine regardless of whether the case was symptomatic. Exposure includes contact with a case during the time period beginning two days prior to the case’s symptom onset (or specimen collection date if the case never experiences symptoms)
- TDH and CDC recommend a 5-day quarantine at home.
- Contacts should get tested on day 5. After that, contacts should self-monitor for symptoms and continue to wear a mask around others for 5 additional days.
Boosted or Recently Vaccinated Close Contacts Do not have to quarantine if:
- They have remained asymptomatic since exposure to COVID-19 and they received a booster dose of vaccine OR
- They completed a primary series of Pfizer or Moderna vaccine in the last 6 months (Must be ≥2 weeks following receipt of the second dose) OR •
- Completed a primary J&J vaccine series in the last 2 months (Must be ≥ 2 weeks following receipt of single dose).
- The student is not required to provide a clearance from a medical provider or an SCS school-based health center to return to school.
Any questions, the Contact Tracing Team can be reached at 416-1730.