If your provider decides treatment can help you, they may prescribe oral antivirals, which are taken for five days. Only a health care provider can prescribe treatment. Treatment works best when you start it soon after you become sick, so it is important to get tested right away if you have symptoms. New York State Affirmation of Isolation (PDF)ĬOVID-19 treatments can lower the amount of virus in your body, reduce symptoms and help you avoid hospitalization.

For more information on COVID-19 sick leave policies, call 85. If your employer asks for proof you needed to isolate in order to provide sick leave, complete the below form. CDC: Isolation and Precautions for People with COVID-19.

COVID-19 Isolation and Exposure Guidance Tool.Stay isolated for at least five days from when your symptoms began (or if you had no symptoms, your test date).Even if you do not have symptoms, do everything you can to not spread the virus to others:

Isolate right away if you have symptoms or test positive.

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Get tested as soon as you have COVID-19 symptoms, five days after being exposed to someone with COVID-19 (or sooner if you develop symptoms), and before and after travel and large gatherings. If you think you were exposed to someone who has COVID-19, but do not have symptoms and have not tested positive, use our COVID-19 Isolation and Exposure Guidance Tool to see what steps you should take now. People who get COVID-19 can protect others and reduce the risk of serious illness, hospitalization and death by following these steps to get necessary treatment.

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