COVID-19 INFORMATION
FOR TESTING AND VACCINE INFORMATION, VISIT COVID19.COLORADO.GOV.
PLEASE DO NOT COME TO OUR OFFICE IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING FEVER, COUGHING, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, OR LOSS OF TASTE OR SMELL. A VIRTUAL VISIT APPOINTMENT MAY BE APPROPRIATE.
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COVID-19 Resources
To protect you and our staff, we are not scheduling office visits for patients with COVID symptoms. A virtual visit known as telehealth is recommended and covered by insurance during this pandemic.
Anyone with COVID-19 indicators like cough, fever, loss of taste or smell, sore throat, body aches, or common flu symptoms should separate themselves from others. If your symptoms cannot be controlled with over-the-counter medications, a virtual visit may be warranted.
What to do if you get COVID is explained in a video recommended by Dr. Guillory. See link in Suggested Sites and Links section below.
If you test positive you will quarantine for at least 10 days and be symptom free for 72 hours before ending quarantine.
Anyone who is exposed to someone with COVID-19 should watch for symptoms until 10 days after you last had close contact. If you develop symptoms, isolate immediately and get tested. Continue to stay home until you know the results..
Even if you don’t develop symptoms, get tested at least 5 days after you last had close contact with someone with COVID-19.
For updated CDC recommendations on quarantine and isolation, check the CDC information.
2/19/22
COVID-19 testing is available at no-cost and covered by all major insurance plans.
You do not need a lab order to be tested.
You should wait about 3-5 days after you think you were exposed before you get tested to make sure there is enough of the virus for the test to find COVID-19 in your body.
If you test positive you will quarantine for at least 10 days and be symptom free for 72 hours before ending quarantine.
Contact your health insurer for specific information. If you do not have insurance, check the list of free testing sites.
You can learn about at-home testing availability or other testing options at:
https://covid19.colorado.gov/testing
CDC recommends that anyone with any signs or symptoms of COVID-19 get tested, regardless of vaccination status or prior infection. If you get tested because you have symptoms or were potentially exposed to the virus, you should stay away from others pending test results.
An overview of testing options is described in Dr. Guillory’s blog, Testing for COVID-19.
2/19/22
The covid19.colorado.gov/vaccine* provides up-to-date information on availability and locations. In addition to website, the state of Colorado has a VACCINE INFORMATION phone number: 1-877-CO VAX CO (1-877-268-2926) Available Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday to Sunday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. MT..
Colorado is currently vaccinating anyone age 5 and older.
* A video explaining effect of the COVID vaccine using messenger RNA is available at the link in the Suggested Sites and Links section below.
2/19/22
Some people experience post-COVID conditions. Post-COVID conditions are a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems people can experience four or more weeks after first being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Even people who did not have COVID-19 symptoms in the days or weeks after they were infected can have post-COVID conditions. These conditions can have different types and combinations of health problems for different lengths of time.
These post-COVID conditions may also be known as long COVID, long-haul COVID, post-acute COVID-19, long-term effects of COVID, or chronic COVID.
Dr. Guillory offers his thoughts on this condition and its treatment in his blog, COVID Long-Haulers – Long Term Effects of COVID-19
7/11/21
What to do “If you get Covid” video provides strategies for home care
What the COVID vaccine does to your body – Video explains messenger RNA