Managing Medical Concerns
When should an employee or student stay home based on symptoms?
Each day, before coming to work or any on-site school or facility, employees, or students (parents for students) should self-assess or screen with this question:
Do you have any of the following symptoms?
- Fever/temperature at or above 100.4 or chills or sense of having a fever
- Cough that you cannot attribute to another health condition
- Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
- Ongoing fatigue that cannot be attributed to another health condition
- Muscle or body aches that cannot be attributed to another health condition or specific activity, such as physical exercise
- Headache that cannot be attributed to another health condition
- New loss of taste or smell
- Sore throat that cannot be attributed to another health condition
- Congestion or runny nose that cannot be attributed to another health condition
- Nausea or vomiting that cannot be attributed to another health condition
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