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If you're sick, especially with a cold-like illness, here's what you need to know:

1. Stay Home: If you're sick, especially with a cold-like illness, please stay home and away from others. This helps stop the sickness from spreading.

2. Treatment is Available: If you have COVID-19 or the flu, there are treatments that can help you feel better and prevent your illness from getting worse. Ask a doctor about your options. Learn More about treatment for COVID-19.

3. Wait to Return to Activities - You can go back to your usual activities when:

  • You've been feeling better overall for at least 24 hours, and
  • If you had a fever, it should be gone for 24 hours without taking any medicine to lower it.
  • Medicines that reduce fever include ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, others), Acetaminophen (Tylenol, others), Naproxen (Aleve), and aspirin.

4. Take Extra Precautions for Five Days: After you start feeling better, continue to be extra cautious for the next five days to protect others. This includes:

This advice is especially important to protect people who get very sick easily, like people who are older than 65 or those with health conditions (weakened immune systems).

These tips are good for stopping lots of different sicknesses, not just COVID-19. Following these steps can help keep everyone safer.

Frequently Asked Questions

You can spread the virus to others starting from 2 days before your symptoms began or the day you got a positive test if you had no symptoms. You can continue to spread the virus for a full 10 days after.

If you're sick, especially with a cold-like illness, it's best to stay home and away from others. This helps stop the sickness from spreading.

You can go back to your usual activities when:

  • You've been feeling better overall for at least 24 hours without taking medicine to reduce fever.
  • If you had a fever, it should be gone for 24 hours without taking any medicine to lower it.
  • Medicines that reduce fever include ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, others), Acetaminophen (Tylenol, others), Naproxen (Aleve), and aspirin.

 

COVID-19 can make you feel lots of different emotions.
If you are in a crisis:
Call SummitStone Crisis Center, anytime at 970-494-4200 or Colorado Crisis Services at 1-844-493-8255. You can also text “TALK” to 38255)'
Extra Help:
I Matter Colorado offers up to 6 free online sessions with a therapist (some in-person appointments are available too). Your conversations are private

 

The new COVID-19 and respiratory virus advice is for places like homes and schools.

There are no new rules for hospitals and clinics right now.

For additional frequently asked questions, please visit the CDC Guidance FAQ Page.