Grand County Public Health (GCPH) completes contact tracing for every positive case in the county. Contact tracing is the process by which Grand County Public Health finds high-risk contacts and those individuals in very close, prolonged contact with the infected patient. There is a time frame of exposure risk that is investigated for each positive case. Once identified as a close contact, individuals are notified about the possibility of COVID-19 exposure and provided guidance. If you are not notified during the Contact Tracing process, it means that you were not identified by GCPH as someone in close contact, during the time frame of risk, with the individual who tested positive.
Grand County public Health uses the following criteria to determine contact risk exposure during contact tracing. Normally, only individuals identified as Medium and High Rigk are contacted during the contact tracing process.
High Risk: 1) Individuals living in the same household as, 2) being an intimate partner of, or 3) providing care in a non-healthcare setting (such as a home) for a person with symptomatic laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection without using recommended precautions for home care and home isolation
Medium Risk (assumes no exposures in the high-risk category): 1) Individuals who have close contact with a person with symptomatic laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, or 2) Individuals on aircraft who are seated within 6 feet (2 seats in each direction) of a traveler with symptomatic laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection, or 3) Individuals living in the same household as, an intimate partner of, or caring for a person in a non-healthcare setting (such as a home) to a person with symptomatic laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection while consistently using recommended precautions for home care and home isolation
Low Risk (assumes no exposures in the high-risk category): 1) Individuals having been in the same indoor environment (e.g., a classroom, a hospital waiting room) as a person with symptomatic laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 for a prolonged period of time but not meeting the definition of close contact.
No Identifiable Risk: Individuals having interactions with a person with symptomatic laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection that do not meet any of the high-, medium- or low-risk conditions above, such as walking by the infected person or being briefly in the same room.