COVID-19 Health & Safety

• If you’re sick, assume it’s COVID-19, and stay home except to get a COVID-19 test. Do not go to the emergency room for a COVID test. Find test availability here.
• Most people with COVID-19 have mild illness and can recover at home without medical care. Seek medical attention immediately if:
  • You are severely dizzy or lightheaded.
  • You are confused or can’t think clearly.
  • Your face and lips have a blue color.
  • You pass out (lose consciousness) or are very hard to wake up.
• If you have COVID-19, isolate yourself to avoid spreading the virus to others. Monitor and treat your symptoms at home and only contact your health care provider if your condition worsens.
• Click here for tips on caring for yourself at home.

Keep up with your follow-up care. Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and feeling better. Your health care provider will discuss follow-up care options with you. ChristianaCare offers virtual visits and symptom monitoring through a secure text message system for patients with COVID-19.

Call 911 if you think you may need emergency care.

ChristianaCare offers treatments, including oral antiviral medications, to help people at higher risk of complications from COVID-19. To learn more, talk with your health care provider about appropriate treatment options for you. If you don’t have a provider or have trouble reaching your provider, call our Center for Virtual Health at 302-428-2400 and click option 3; our team can help with navigating treatment.

Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Your health care provider will discuss follow-up care options to re-establish an exercise routine, advise on healthy eating habits, and give you guidance on managing your health based on your personal health history and family history.

If you do not have a primary care provider, contact one of ChristianaCare's offices in your neighborhood. Virtual visits are available at some locations.

It is possible to become reinfected with COVID-19, so it’s important to:

• Continue to practice COVID safety.
• Get your vaccine and booster shots if you have not yet received them; immunity from a COVID-19 infection does not give as much protection the vaccine and booster series.

The ChristianaCare Center for Virtual Health offers an online clinic for patients with Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19, also known as long COVID, who have debilitating symptoms at least eight weeks after initial onset of COVID-19.

The multidisciplinary clinic is comprised of a primary care physician, pharmacist, cardiologist, pulmonologist, sports medicine physician, neurologist, endocrinologist and psychologist.

There are two ways to refer to this practice:

1. If a patient has a primary care clinician or specialist who is at ChristianaCare, they can directly place referral in the electronic health record.
2. An individual or the individual’s clinician (if outside of ChristianaCare) can call 302-428-2400, option 5 and provide demographic information along with dates of COVID-19 infection.

Once referred, the clinic’s primary care physician will conduct a virtual visit with the patient to perform a standardized screening of the patient’s symptoms and review health history and evaluations to date.

The primary care physician and clinic team then will develop a customized, personalized patient plan. A nurse will follow up with the patient to implement the plan.

Patients are monitored via biometric devices as needed and stay connected to the clinical team via a secure texting platform. Virtual group therapy is offered to every patient.