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December 4, 2020 | 2:03 PM

What to do if you test positive for the coronavirus this fall or winter

Here’s how to self-isolate, what the new quarantine guidance means for your household, and which symptoms signal you need immediate emergency care.

By Kristen Kendrick/NPR

December 2, 2020 | 12:21 PM

CDC shortens its COVID-19 quarantine recommendations

If an individual does not develop symptoms, they need only quarantine for 10 days; if they test negative, that period can be reduced to just one week.

By Colin Dwyer/NPR

November 25, 2020 | 5:21 AM

Hundreds of students and staff in the Altoona School District are quarantined

All 12 schools in the Altoona Area School District will be online until Feb. 1 or until Blair County sees two consecutive weeks of a disease transmission level that’s less than the current “substantial” level.

By Min Xian/SpotlightPA

July 11, 2020 | 8:15 PM

4 more states added to Pennsylvania travel quarantine list

The state recommends people self-quarantine after traveling from any of 19 states on the list.

By The Associated Press

July 3, 2020 | 2:37 PM

England to lift quarantine rule for more than 50 nations — but not for the U.S.

The rule change will go into effect on July 10 and will apply to places such as Italy, Spain, Germany and France, according to the government.

By Jason Slotkin

July 2, 2020 | 5:34 AM

UPMC says staff don’t have to quarantine after travel

Pennsylvania’s largest medical system wrote leadership and “expert teams” review “all recommendations and then craft our approach.”

By Sarah Boden/WESA

April 25, 2020 | 5:10 AM

Long ago, a quarantine center for another deadly contagion

By Frank Fitzpatrick/The Philadelphia Inquirer

April 2, 2020 | 5:53 AM

Experts: A president is not able to order a national quarantine

"It is unclear how any president would have the authority to impose a federal or national quarantine."

By Brian Naylor/NPR

March 30, 2020 | 5:51 AM

How 15 days became 45: President Trump extends guidelines to slow coronavirus

"The better you do, the faster this whole nightmare will end."

By Tamara Keith, Franco Ordonez, and Ayesha Rascoe/NPR

March 23, 2020 | 8:11 PM

Philadelphia to open a quarantine facility for people who can’t go home

By Jake Blumgart/WHYY

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