Can FSH doctors provide guidance on when it’s safe to return to work?
FSH doctors can provide information for you to share with your employer based on your answers to a few questions HERE.
Returning to work or school is considered safe when you:
- Have not been recommended to quarantine or isolate, or
- Have completed recommended quarantine following exposure, or
- Have completed recommended isolation, and
- At least 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared, and
- At least 24 hours have passed with no fever without fever-reducing medication and other symptoms have improved
Refer to the CDC for more on how to discontinue self-quarantine.
Note: FSH doctors cannot order COVID-19 tests and therefore cannot confirm whether or not a patient has COVID-19.
Can FSH give me a sick note?
The CDC recommends employers not require a doctor’s note during the COVID-19 pandemic. Doctors’ offices may be unusually busy, which means getting a note may require a long wait on the phone or follow-up visits.
To help our patients who need documentation, we will continue to issue “excuse notes” for those patients that request one during a telemedicine visit. Typically, we only issue these notes for up to 4 days. Given the CDC recommendations around 14-day quarantines for those that are exposed to COVID-19, we have temporarily lifted the cap to 14 days when appropriate.