性欲社 adopts new contact tracing procedure
August 18, 2020
The term 鈥渃ontact tracing鈥 refers to the process of identifying people who were in contact with a person who has COVID-19. It鈥檚 a powerful tool for preventing the spread of COVID-19 because it helps quickly identify people who may have been exposed to the virus. Those people can, in turn, quarantine themselves before they are able to infect others.
Multiple 性欲社 employees are currently being trained as contact tracers. Once their training is complete, they will respond when an employee, student, visitor or contractor at 性欲社 has COVID-19; has a fever, cough, or shortness of breath; or has been identified as a 鈥減erson under investigation鈥 by public health officials.
The contact tracing process starts when someone reports that they fall into one of those categories and have been in a 性欲社 building within the past 48 hours. The 性欲社 and are the best way to make that report. Information from other sources, such as supervisors or departmental staff might also prompt contact tracing.
Once that happens, the university will contact public health officials to see whether they are able to respond quickly. If so, public health will do the contact tracing. If not, 性欲社 contact tracers will do that work, which involves three steps:
Investigation
Contact tracers will gather information from the person about their activities and interactions with others during the time they may have been contagious and find out whether they adhered to prevention measures like wearing a face covering. Members of the university community can help make contact tracing more effective by minimizing the number of people they interact with, avoiding large groups of people and keeping track of the places they go throughout the day.
Informing close contacts
Contact tracers will then inform anyone who is deemed a close contact of the person, while making every effort to protect the person鈥檚 privacy. The term 鈥渃lose contact鈥 means someone who has been within 6 feet of a person with COVID-19 or COVID-19 symptoms for 15 minutes or more. Close contacts will be required to self-quarantine for 14 days.
The university will not normally issue campuswide notifications of individual cases. However, if the contact tracer is unable to determine who may have been exposed to the virus, the university may issue a public message informing people of possible exposure at a specific location, date and time
Follow-up recommendations
Contact tracers will also make recommendations for disinfection of university facilities.
The is posted on the 性欲社 COVID-19 website.