If you have symptoms listed below, please contact your healthcare provider and also email HealthCenter@trinitydc.edu
Guidance from the CDC website:
CDC recommends that all people use core prevention strategies to protect themselves and others from COVID-19:
- Stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines.
- Although vaccinated people sometimes get infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, staying up to date on COVID-19 vaccines significantly lowers the risk of getting very sick, being hospitalized, or dying from COVID-19.
- Practice good hygiene (practices that improve cleanliness)
- Take steps for cleaner air
When you are sick:
- Use precautions to prevent spread, including staying home and away from others (including people you live with who are not sick) if you have respiratory symptoms.
- Learn when you can go back to your normal activities.
- Seek health care promptly for testing and/or treatment if you have risk factors for severe illness. Treatment may help lower your risk of severe illness, but it needs to be started within a few days of when your symptoms begin.
Additional Prevention Strategies
In addition, there are other prevention strategies that you can choose to further protect yourself and others.
- Wearing a mask and putting distance between yourself and others can help lower the risk of COVID-19 transmission.
- Testing for COVID-19 can help you decide what to do next, like getting treatment to reduce your risk of severe illness and taking steps to lower your chances of spreading COVID-19 to others. If you test positive for Covid, please submit the COVID test submission form and follow the guidance of the Health Center or your provider about return to campus. See additional guidance at: https://www.cdc.gov/covid/testing/index.html
- 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).
- You can go back to your normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, both are true:
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- When you go back to your normal activities, take added precaution over the next 5 days, such as taking additional steps for cleaner air, hygiene, masks, physical distancing, and/or testing when you will be around other people indoors. This is especially important to protect people with factors that increase their risk of severe illness from respiratory viruses.
What to watch out for
Using these prevention strategies can be especially helpful when:
- Respiratory viruses, such as COVID-19, flu, and RSV, are causing a lot of illness in your community
- You or those around you have risk factors for severe illness
- You or those around you were recently exposed to a respiratory virus, are sick, or are recovering.
Questions? Reach out the Health and Wellness Center at 202-884-9615 or healthcenter@trinitydc.edu
