It has been a while since we had a COVID specific update, unfortunately California is experiencing a surge and that means this holiday season will continue to look and feel a little different. We remain open and ready to serve our community of families. We have implemented multiple safety measures to help reduce the threat of infection. We still have flu vaccine available, and we are offering COVID screening appointments as well. Feel free to call or send us a message via MyChart.
Some key points:
- The CDC has published guidelines for shorter quarantine periods. From the CDC website:
- Quarantine can end after Day 10 without testing and if no symptoms have been reported during daily monitoring.
- With this strategy, residual post-quarantine transmission risk is estimated to be about 1% with an upper limit of about 10%.
- Quarantine can end after Day 10 without testing and if no symptoms have been reported during daily monitoring.
- With this strategy, residual post-quarantine transmission risk is estimated to be about 1% with an upper limit of about 10%.
- In both cases, additional criteria (e.g., continued symptom monitoring and masking through Day 14) must be met and are outlined in the full text.
- Quarantine can end after Day 10 without testing and if no symptoms have been reported during daily monitoring.
- The CDC also recommends universal mask wearing:
- masks should be worn for all indoor activity outside of an individual’s home, as well as during all outdoor activity when at least 6 feet of social distancing cannot be maintained.
- wear masks in your own household if someone living there has tested positive for the virus or has potentially been exposed
- San Mateo County has not issued a new stay-at-home order yet, but Santa Clara and San Francisco have.
- There are reports of a vaccine coming soon, we do not have any details yet but will share them as soon as we have them.
This pandemic is not over yet, but we have some tools to fight it: wear a mask, wash your hands, maintain social distancing. We are bigger than this, we can and will get through this crisis together, one day at a time.