Contact Tracing (4-27-20)

Contact Tracing (4-27-20)

These new positives that have come up, it's now the job to find out who else they may have come in contact with and who might also be at risk of contracting coronavirus.

Kq2's kilee thomas is here now with the process health department staff go through to track down who else has been exposed.

If you were asked to name the people you've had close personal contact with two days ago, could you?

Well, that's exactly what the st.

Joseph health department would ask you if you were to test positive for coronavirus.it's called contact tracing.

A person testing positive for covid-19 is interviewed by the health department and asked to give every person they've been less than 6 feet away from for more than 10-15 minutes with in two days before they began showing symptoms. those close contacts will be notified of their possible exposure and asked to self- quarantine.health professionals say this is the whole point of social distancing."if you were positive, a lot of times people are like, 'oh my gosh!

Who might i have given it to?

I don't want to have given it to anyone.'

Had you maintained that social distance, that's the whole reason that you have now stopped the spread of that disease process and you can say, 'well, here's my family numbers.'

That's always going to be an issue and here's my neighbor that i walk with.

As opposed to, 'i was in this very large crowd for a really long period of time and i don't know who i might have given it to.'" contact tracing does not apply to those people who just passed by someone who ends up positive with covid-19.

The social distancing would have needed to be broken for more than 10-15 minutes health department say they've had to make over 100 contact tracing callsit's expected more phone calls will be made notifying people of their possible exposure as postive cases increase reporting in studio, kilee thomas, kq2 news.

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