Wellness in Quarantine and Isolation
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Welcome Video.MP4Welcome to the UW - Stevens Point web page for students in quarantine and isolation! This tool will provide you with wellness tips and resources during this challenging time. Each tab has wellness-related content that will be useful for entertainment, health and positivity.
Brought to you by Heath Promotion and Wellness majors in the Community Wellness Practicum. We hope you find this helpful!
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Why am I here and what does this mean?
Please follow UWSP guidelines for quarantine and isolation. You should be receiving information soon from UWSP Health services if you haven't already. If you follow these guidelines, your time in quarantine and/or isolation will be smoother. This will be a very difficult time for you so please explore our webpage so you can keep focusing on your well-being while in quarantine and/or isolation.
COVID-19 is unlike anything we have seen before. It affects people in many different ways. Even if you don't have any symptoms, you can still spread the disease. Because of this, we want to be as cautious as possible. Even though you may not be struggling with symptoms, you can spread it to someone who is considered high risk. As students, we want the best college experience possible. The only way for campus to stay open is for us to take these precautions to try and slow the spread of COVID-19.
Even if you are not considered high risk, you still have to be careful. There have been cases of young, healthy people who are hospitalized due to COVID-19. Overall, know that we care about you and we want everyone to stay healthy. You are doing your part by taking this seriously while staying away from others.
Make sure that you contact your employer and professors to inform them that you have to isolate/quarantine. Communication is key and the only way for people to be informed that they may have been in close contact is for you to tell them. This can be a difficult conversation to have, but it is something that needs to be done. We want everyone to be as safe as possible and communication is a key aspect to staying healthy.
Keep track of your daily symptoms and contact health services if it gets worse. If there is an emergency, call 911 immediately.
More information can be found at these two sources:
What's next after quarantine/isolation?
Important things to consider once you’ve been released from quarantine/isolation:
If there is an activity that is not necessary to meet your basic needs, it may be worth considering alternatives that don’t require you to be out in your community. Some interactions are necessary, such as grocery shopping. Other activities are choices, such as leisure and social activities, and should be taken into consideration first. People you interact with are at risk for exposure to or illness from COVID-19. Each interaction increases the chances you could expose and spread it to others, if you still have it. Consider how your actions and choices may impact others and how it may impact them if they are infected or become ill with COVID-19.
We know that many in Wisconsin face systemic barriers to accessing affordable health care, food, and other basic supplies, so it’s important that we all do our part to protect other members of our community.
Chance of Reinfection:
Cases of reinfection of COVID-19 have been reported but are rare. In general, reinfection means a person was infected (got sick) once, recovered, and then later became infected again. Based on what we know from similar viruses, some reinfections are expected.
The duration and robustness of immunity to COVID-19 remains under investigation. Based on what we know from other related human coronaviruses, people appear to become susceptible to reinfection around 90 days after onset of infection. To date, reinfection appears to be uncommon during the initial 90 days after symptom onset of the preceding infection
Being released from quarantine/isolation and clear of symptoms is not an excuse to disregard safety guidelines and recommendations. We ask that you please remain adamant about these precautions so that we can help stop the spread and work towards keeping our community protected. We encourage you to share your experience with other students in hopes that they will take the necessary precautions so they do not have to go through quarantine and/or isolation.
Sources:
Wisconsin Department of Health Services
CDC Website: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)