Lane County Public Health is urging people to respond when a contact tracer reaches out to them regarding a positive COVID-19 test.
The agency is experiencing a lack of compliance in about 22 % of its case investigations. Public Health spokesperson Jason Davis said the goal of contact tracing is to help prevent the spread of the virus.
“We want to make sure that that is communicated throughout our community and people feel confident in working with public health to try and zero down on these cases.” Davis said. “Again, the only reason we do contact investigations and disease investigations is to not identify people by name but rather to identify trends and to address those trends and try to isolate individuals who are currently contagious or infectious.”
Davis said if people are concerned about fraud, they can call Lane County Public Health at 541-682-4041 to confirm they were contacted by the agency.
The largest number of COVID-19 cases in Lane County is among the college age population at 71%. There has been a reduction in new cases among University of Oregon students in the past two week.
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