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If someone in your house is exposed, how many people in your household need to quarantine? (Tyger Williams/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)
You were exposed to Covid-19. Does everyone in your house have to quarantine?
Your kid’s school calls. They’ve been exposed to Covid-19. You know to keep them home for 14 days. But does the whole family need to quarantine? What happens if you were exposed at work, and you live with other people? Should the entire household stay home?
There are countless scenarios where one person might be directly exposed to the coronavirus while everyone else in the household was not. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t explicitly address this topic, which leaves many wondering what to do, including a reader who asked about the topic through our Curious Philly platform. Curious Philly is where readers ask us questions and reporters hunt down the answers.