UPDATE: Please visit the WADOH and CDC websites for the latest, up-to-date, guidance on COVID-19.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
https://doh.wa.gov/emergencies/covid-19
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
https://doh.wa.gov/emergencies/covid-19
Testing positive for COVID-19
You will be required to isolate for a minimum of 5 days or 24 hours after symptoms improve and no fever (without fever reducing medication), whichever is longer. If you do not have symptoms, your isolation period begins the day of your positive test.
If you are identified as a close contact of a positive case, you will be required to quarantine for 5 days since the last date that you had contact with the positive case.
Our staff are available to help support you while you are in quarantine or isolation. We can assist with grocery shopping, prescription pick up, rent/utility assistance, housing, and other needs to help you stay home for your entire isolation or quarantine period. For more information about quarantine and isolation support, please email us here.
Contact a healthcare provider right away to determine if you are eligible for treatment, even if your symptoms are mild right now.
Don’t delay: Treatment must be started within days of when you first develop symptoms to be effective.
People who are more likely to get very sick include older adults (ages 50 years or more, with risk increasing with older age), people who are unvaccinated, and people with certain medical conditions, such as a weakened immune system. Being vaccinated makes you much less likely to get very sick. Still, some vaccinated people, especially those ages 65 years or older or who have other risk factors for severe disease, may benefit from treatment if they get COVID-19. A healthcare provider will help decide which treatment, if any, is right for you.
For COVID Treatment Options, contact your Primary Care Provider or Contact your local Urgent Care Clinic or Emergency Room.
Don’t delay: Treatment must be started within days of when you first develop symptoms to be effective.
People who are more likely to get very sick include older adults (ages 50 years or more, with risk increasing with older age), people who are unvaccinated, and people with certain medical conditions, such as a weakened immune system. Being vaccinated makes you much less likely to get very sick. Still, some vaccinated people, especially those ages 65 years or older or who have other risk factors for severe disease, may benefit from treatment if they get COVID-19. A healthcare provider will help decide which treatment, if any, is right for you.
For COVID Treatment Options, contact your Primary Care Provider or Contact your local Urgent Care Clinic or Emergency Room.
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For more information on how to care for yourself if you are positive, or others in your household from exposure, click here.
To calculate your quarantine or isolation period, please use the quarantine and isolation calculator click the button below:
Care Connect Washington
If you’ve tested positive for COVID-19 and need food or other assistance while you isolate, please call the state COVID-19 information hotline at 1-800-525-0127, then press #. Language assistance is available.
Care Connect Washington is a program to provide food and other necessities to people who have either tested positive for COVID-19 or been exposed and need support to isolate or quarantine at home. The state Department of Health, working with local health jurisdictions and their partners, is operating Care Connect Washington on a region-by-region basis. Each region works with community-based partners to connect people to services they are eligible for, such as medication delivery, health care, help applying for unemployment, local housing agencies, food banks, childcare providers and more. Help is made based on need.
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Quarantine for close contacts
Quarantine period starts the day the unvaccinated person was last in close contact with someone with COVID-19. Close contact means spending at least 15 minutes or more within 6 feet of someone over the course of a day, with or without a mask. Individuals who are close contacts should quarantine for a minimum of 5 days and should get tested on day 5 after exposure. If close contacts develop symptoms, please get tested, or if you are unable to get tested, assume you are positive for COVID-19 and isolate for a minimum of 5 days or 24 hours after symptoms resolve (whichever is LONGER). It is very important to continue to wear a mask, wash your hands often and limit your contact with people you don’t live with for the full 10 days after exposure.
COVID-19 Symptoms Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. People with these symptoms may have COVID-19:
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Who should get tested?
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K-12 COVID Guidance Tree
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