COVID-19

Vaccination is currently the leading public health prevention strategy to end the COVID-19 pandemic.

Difference between quarantine and isolation

You quarantine when you have been exposed to COVID-19 and are not up to date on your vaccines. This is because you might become infected with COVID-19 and could spread COVID-19 to others, even if you do not have symptoms.

Isolation is used to separate people who have COVID-19 from those who do not have COVID-19. You isolate when you show symptoms of COVID-19 or are infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, even if you don’t have symptoms.

Resources:

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

Florida Department of Health (Pinellas County) http://pinellas.floridahealth.gov/