Once a person tests positive for Covid, a team of contact tracers work to track down anyone that person came into significant contact with within a given period. The contacts must then quarantine for 14 days from the last time they had in-person interaction with the Covid patient. (The Enterprise/Rachel Parsons)
In this video, Rebecca Stricker, Malheur County Health Department nursing supervisor, discusses what steps the health department takes when it finds out about a new case of Covid infection.
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