Health Policy

Infectious diseases including the flu and COVID-19 continue to circulate, and any gathering carries risk of spreading disease. The event organizers want to ensure the safety and comfort of all attendees and are following recommendations from the CDC, Santa Clara County Public Health, and Google in developing these policies.

Before the event

Participants should get a seasonal flu vaccination as soon as it is available in your area.

If you have tested positive for COVID-19 and / or have symptomatic illness, follow these steps or use this flowchart:

Isolate from others for a minimum of five (5) days from the date of first symptoms or positive test if no symptoms, whichever occurs first. If after five (5) days you are symptom free for 24 hours, (without the use of fever-reducing medication) and your other symptoms are no longer present, mild, or improving, you may visit the event.
If after five (5) days your fever still persists, continue to isolate until it resolves. If symptoms, other than fever, are not improving, continue to isolate until symptoms are improving.
Wear a high quality mask until at least day ten (10). You may remove your mask sooner if you take two (2) negative antigen tests with at least 48 hours between tests.

Regardless of vaccination status or previous infection, if you were exposed to COVID-19 as a close contact, the state of California asks that you should test within three (3) to five (5) days after your last close contact and wear face coverings around others for a total of ten (10) days after exposure. A close contact means you have been indoors with someone who has COVID-19 for 15 minutes or more, even if everyone was masked. You may have the virus.

During and after the event

If you test positive for COVID-19 within 14 days of visiting the Google event venue, we ask that you isolate from others and report the case to the event organizers for Public Health reporting requirements in the state of California.