home quarantine
Stay-inside health order
Home quarantine is isolation within one's own residence to prevent disease transmission.
Unlike hospital quarantine, the person stays home but avoids contact with others: She completed a fourteen-day home quarantine after testing positive.
The term became ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic, when millions were required to isolate at home after exposure or infection.
- isolationComplete separation from others
- lockdownEnforced restriction on movement
- self-isolationVoluntary separation from others
- social distancingDeliberate interpersonal spacing
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
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Formal entry into medical care
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home quarantinefreedom of movement
Liberty to travel unimpeded
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home quarantinebusiness as usual
Continuation of normal routine
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