Grays Harbor County stopped reporting the number of its investigations related to COVID-19 contact tracing.
The reporting change is due to the number of coronavirus cases the county is receiving, Grays Harbor County Public Health and Social Services said in a statement on its website.
“Some cases have to be assigned to the Washington State Department of Health for investigation,” the Grays Harbor County COVID-19 Incident Management Team said in the website post. “When cases are assigned to the State, all contacts of those cases are also assigned to the State. While this partnership has been helpful to ensure that cases are investigated promptly, the current arrangement delays the accessibility of information to the local health jurisdictions.”
Grays Harbor County will no longer report COVID-19 contact tracing statistics.
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The county will still ask individuals who test positive for the coronavirus to provide contact information of people they have recently been around within a distance of six feet for at least 15 minutes.
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