FAQ's related to sports:
1. If a player has been tested and has COVID-19, they have to quarantine for 14 days, correct? This is not correct. If a person tests positive for COVID they are in isolation for 10 days from either test date or symptom onset. They also have to be 24 hours fever free (without medication) and symptoms improving.
a.Does the whole team have to quarantine too? This is where the importance of contact tracing comes into play. Anyone who is considered a close contact would have to quarantine for 14 days from their last exposure date. A close contact is anyone who was within 6ft for 15 minutes or more. Contact tracing would start 48 hours prior to the positive cases symptom onset or test date. Wearing a mask can lower your risk of exposure, we encourage them to be worn when social distancing cannot be maintained (bench, sidelines, etc.). However, if the 6ft social distance is not maintained, those people will be quarantined regardless if a mask was worn or not.
2. If a player knowingly has been exposed to someone who has tested positive for COIVD-19, that player should quarantine for 14 days, correct? Correct, from their last date of exposure.
a.Then does that player’s whole team need to quarantine too? No, unless that player who is in quarantine becomes positive. It goes by the positive case, so if the positive case did not have any contact to anyone else on the team, they would not need to quarantine.
If you have questions or would like additional information about Coronavirus or COVID-19, please call the Hendricks County Health Department at 317-745-9222. The Indiana State Department of Health COVID-19 Call Center may be reached at 877-826-0011 from 8 am to 5 pm daily.
Helpful Links:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/quarantine.html
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/disposition-in-home-patients.html