Home may be where the heart is, but it is also the most likely place to spread COVID-19.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released a new report that found "household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is common and occurs early after illness onset." The CDC warned that people should "isolate immediately at the onset of COVID-like symptoms, at the time of testing as a result of high risk exposure, or at a time of a positive test result, whichever comes first."

The CDC added that all members of the household should wear masks within shared spaces of the infected individual.

According to Eat This, Not That!, the CDC researchers found it took less than a week for one family member to transmit the virus to another, no matter if that individual was a child or an adult. According to CNN, the study, published last Friday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, suggested that family members who believe they are infected should stay in a separate bedroom and use their own bathroom if possible.

The researchers noted that 53% of people who lived with someone with COVID-19 became infected, and 75% of these secondary infections occurred within a week, according to CNN.

Experts acknowledge that isolating family members can be challenging.

"If you have somebody at home who's older or immunocompromised, you may want to isolate them to one side of the house so the kids and everybody else isn't around them on a regular basis," Dr. Tanya Altmann, a working mother, UCLA-trained pediatrician, and best-selling author, told CNN. "If it's a child that you have to take care for, then you may want to make the decision to isolate one adult with the child."

Altmann added, "You can have a healthy person leave the sick one food and drinks at the door, and then go wash their hands. Wear gloves to pick up the empty plates, take them back to the kitchen and wash them in hot soap and water, or preferably with a dishwasher, and then wash your hands again.

Here are more tips on how to safely quarantine your home if someone develops COVID-19.