Monday, 11/30/2020 @7PM

The CDC is considering shortening the quarantine period.  Do we have any plans to adjust?

• CDC is still considering.  When that decision is made, we will transition to those guidelines.
• We are waiting for official guidance and supporting data that supports the guidance.
• MDHHS may decide to not to follow these guidelines.

Does this change only effect quarantine or Isolation?

• So far, we have only heard about quarantine.

Why are we running out of contacts when new cases are on the rise?

• MDHHS tried to change the process to reach out to more people.  We cut down on collecting information on HH contacts.
• We are training a lot more case investigators. They will be starting next Monday

Do you know what the ratio of contacts to case?

• November hit a high of 4: (it may be 2.5:1)

Do you think we need to shorten our scripts to handle more contacts?

• No, we should be following our scripts as normal.

If someone had covid-19.  Would they need to quarantine if they came in contact within 90 days?

• They wouldn't need to if they don't show symptoms.

People seem to want a rapid test. Should we push people to the standard test?

• For contact tracing we recommend a diagnostic test.
• Testing (or lack thereof) could make a change in guidance less likely.
• It could be a challenge to the possible new guidance if it requires a test to use the 10 days guidance.

Is rapid testing a throat or nose swab?

• It can be.  We should not get into any details with the contacts concerning testing types.
• The conventional and rapid nose throat tests are considered diagnostic.
• We want to exclude antibody tests.
• We don't have any data to tell us if a person with antibodies is immune, how long they might be.  Or what strains of Covid-19 they be immune to.

What happens with a household that has a case isolating with it?  Do we follow up?

• We do not.  We only reach out to them once.

Are we halting onboarding volunteers or case investigations?

• Case investigations aren't taking volunteers
• We may be bringing on more people for volunteering in the next few weeks.

 

People we have been able to reach

 

The amount of people we have reached and have been successful