Isolation Protocols

Updated 7.20.22

COVID-19 Positive (Isolation)

Everyone, regardless of vaccination status.                                                       Guidance:

  • Isolation for 5 days at home or in Miller Hall (3rd & 4th Floor) beginning the date of the positive test .
  • If you have no symptoms or symptoms are resolving after 5 days, you can leave isolation.
  • Students and employees released from 5-day isolation should continue to wear a mask on campus at all times for an additional five days.

*If a fever persists, isolation will continue until fever-free for 24-hours without medication.

If you were exposed to someone with COVID-19

Guidance:

  • Wear a quality mask around others for 5 days.
  • Test on day 5 (on-campus or elsewhere) or if develop symptoms

Email chadc@goshen.edu to arrange testing. Please isolate yourself until you have been tested. 

Definitions:

  • Isolation is the term used for separation from other people when you have tested positive with COVID-19.
  • Quarantine is the term used for separation from other people when you are not ill or known to be infected, but might have been exposed to the novel coronavirus.