Healthcare personnel with higher-risk exposure
• Personnel who have received all COVID-19 vaccine and booster doses as recommended by CDC. Under conventional strategies, asymptomatic healthcare personnel who have received all COVID-19 vaccine and booster doses as recommended by CDC do not need to be restricted from work if they have had a higher-risk exposure but do not have symptoms. They should follow all recommended infection prevention and control practices and isolate immediately if they develop symptoms. Under conventional strategies, such personnel should be tested for SARS CoV-2, per CDC guidance. Under contingency or crisis strategies, testing is not required, and the duration of quarantine may be shortened.
• Personnel who have not received all COVID-19 vaccine and booster doses as recommended by CDC. Under conventional conditions, asymptomatic healthcare personnel who have not received all COVID-19 vaccine and booster doses as recommended by CDC, and who have had a higher risk exposure to SARS-CoV-2, can return to the workplace after day ten without testing, or facilities can limit the duration of work restriction under certain circumstances as outlined in CDC guidance. Under contingency conditions such personnel can continue to work using a “test-to stay” strategy under certain circumstances. Under crisis conditions, such personnel can continue to work without testing as long as they remain asymptomatic.
• Healthcare personnel who are exposed should use well-fitting respiratory source control all times while in the facility and follow all conventional, contingency, and crisis strategies and follow all recommended infection prevention and control practices.