Video: When can a sick family member rejoin the household?

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When can a sick family member rejoin the household? There's not enough testing capacity in most communities to follow ideal procedures, so it's difficult to tell when a person with COVID-19 or exhibiting COVID-19-like symptoms is well enough to rejoin family life and not risk infecting others.

CIDD's Elizabeth McGraw discusses what that look likes for an infected person in the absence of testing.

Credit: Pennsylvania State University

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