2/18/2021
On Feb. 16, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) released updated
recommendations regarding healthcare workers (HCW) exposed to COVID-19 and quarantining.
Key guidance for healthcare providers includes:
• Excluding all HCWs from healthcare settings for 14 days following COVID-19 exposures regardless of worker vaccination status.
• Advising fully vaccinated, non-symptomatic HCWs, who are within days 14-90 of completing the vaccine series and who have been exposed to COVID-19, that they may return to community activities, but should self-monitor for COVID-19 symptoms for 14 days.
• Testing and isolating any individual who develops signs or symptoms of COVID-19 after a known exposure.
The recommendations, which also include information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also cover:
• Diagnostic testing of HCW for COVID-19
• HCW Exposure to COVID-19
• Recommendations for HCW in contact with people having confirmed or suspected COVID-19
• Guidance for ill HCW with confirmed or suspected COVID-19
• Guidance for recovered HCW who are exposed to COVID-19 positive patients.