Get the Twistle app. If you have to isolate or quarantine, IU Health will use the app to text official confirmation when you are cleared to return to your residence hall.
If you are identified as a close contact:
If a co-worker, friend, roommate, teammate, or other close acquaintance receives a positive test and you are identified are having been in close contact with that person you must quarantine.
Quarantine
Stay home and avoid all contact with others for 14 days from your last exposure.
Answer the call
Cooperate with IU contact tracers to help stop the spread of the virus.
Monitor your health
Participate in daily COVID-19 symptom checks via IU Health Twistle text messages.
No symptoms?
Stay in quarantine for 14 days from your last exposure.
Symptoms?
Get a virtual screening for COVID-19 through the IU Health Virtual Visits app or website. They will refer you to testing, if needed.
Tested negative for COVID-19?
Remain in quarantine for the full 14 days. You cannot test out of quarantine.
Tested positive for COVID-19?
Enter isolation protocol.
Note: You will receive a text message from IU Health confirming that you can end your quarantine. You must participate in Twistle to receive this message and get official clearance.
If you personally test positive for COVID-19:
Isolate: Stay home and avoid all contact with others for at least 10 days.
Answer the call
Cooperate with IU contact tracers to help stop the spread of the virus.
Monitor your health
Participate in daily COVID-19 symptom checks via IU Health Twistle text messages.
No symptoms?
Stay in isolation for 10 days from the time of your positive test.
Mild/moderate symptoms?
Remain in isolation until it has been at least 10 days from the onset of your symptoms AND you have had no fever for 24 hours, with the improvement of any other symptoms.
Severe symptoms?
Seek emergency medical care immediately.
Note: You will receive a text message from IU Health confirming that you can end your isolation. You must participate in Twistle to receive this message and get official clearance.