'We've had protests at our offices, threats of a shooting and a civil war,' one local health official says. 'We are desperately trying to scale up contact tracing, but...having to divert funding to hire security guards.' Others report similar experiences.
At the Salt Lake County Health Department, a woman teaches new contact tracers on May 19 how to identify potential new exposures after a person tests positive for the coronavirus.At the Salt Lake County Health Department, a woman teaches new contact tracers on May 19 how to identify potential new exposures after a person tests positive for the coronavirus.
"For the first time, people are hearing terms like 'contact tracing' and 'case investigation,' and those frighten them for some reason," Jones says."They've been politicized." But Jones is finding it difficult to get the word out about the public health tools now being used more widely: coronavirus testing, contact tracing, and isolation and quarantine. Okanogan County is rural and relatively isolated, with no local daily newspaper, and the pandemic has only meant fewer opportunities for communication and interaction.
Not long after, law enforcement told Jones there was online chatter about her team's work, and growing threats against her. Next came a series of online threats. People said they would reveal her home address. There was even what Jones described as"a call to arms" against her."I was that fearful," she says."When the neighbor's dog would bark, I would jump up at night."
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