Lane County Public Health spokesman Jason Davis said the new guidelines mean more people could be asked to self-isolate for 14 days.
News reporter michael sevren.
He joins us live outside of lane county public health with the new guidelines for contact tracers, which could lead to more people being asked to self isolate.
Michael?
Chynna - contact tracers are the ones at lane county public health who find out when people started feeling sick and where they have been.
Before they were just reaching out to confirmed cases, but now they are reaching out to presumptive cases.
Spokesperson jason davis says a presumptive case is someone who has had known contact with someone who has tested positive, is showing symptoms, but hasn't been tested.
He says those contact tracers will now be reaching out to them and may ask them to self quarantine for 14 days.
Along with asking questions about their health, tracers also make sure people's needs like food are meet so they don't break quarantine.
This will enable us to go down that path of reopening.
We are going to sacrifice some individual freedoms on an individual level for the need to have a more relaxed atmosphere throughout our communities.
Governor kate brown has asked public health leaders to have 15 contact tracers per one hundred thousand people.
Right now lane county has seven, but davis says they have put a plan in action to get more.
Coming up in the next hour on kezi 9 news at 5, i'll tell you about a drastic change to the definition for exposure and what it means for social distancing.
Live in eugene i'm michael sevren kezi 9 news.
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