With a surge in cases, Public Health is changing its COVID-19 contact tracing process and is asking for the public’s help in navigating the current circumstances. Moving forward, contact tracers will continue to contact those who test positive for an initial interview but will be designating cases as either “priority” or “low risk,” with healthcare […]
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Hoopa Valley Tribe Announces Six COVID-19 Cases, Two Rivers Tribune reports
The Hoopa Valley Tribe announced yesterday that there are six active COVID-19 cases on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation and the tribe is shutting down non-emergency operations for two weeks to allow for contact tracing and the formation of reopening safety plans, according to a Two Rivers Tribune Facebook post. Read more here.
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Alder Bay Administrator Did Not Know Possible Source of Facility’s COVID Cases Before Bloomberg Column, T-S reports
The administrator of Alder Bay Assisted Living did not know how the COVID-19 virus might have been brought into the facility, leading to the deaths of four residents, before reading about a Bloomberg column on a local news site, according to a Times-Standard story. The column “Confessions of a California COVID Nurse” by well-known author […]
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Without a Trace: This California County has Stopped Contact Tracing as Coronavirus Surges
A month ago, everyone in Merced County infected with the coronavirus got a call from county officials, asking questions about whom they’d come in contact with. It’s a tracing process that experts say is critical to stopping the spread of the highly infectious disease. Now, facing a five-fold increase in infections, Merced County officials have […]
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Contact Tracing: How County Public Health Slows the Spread of COVID (VIDEO)
Contact tracing is one of the tools Humboldt County Public Health uses to ease the spread of COVID-19. “Public Health investigators have been working tirelessly for months to trace the contacts of known COVID-19 patients. With their diligent work, we have been able to slow the spread here in Humboldt County,” reads a Humco COVID […]