The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today announced it is shifting its COVID-19 contact tracing efforts and individual case investigation telephone calls to focus on a more strategic approach of automated case notifications.
Starting June 1, 2022, IDPH no longer will make individual case investigation calls to persons positive with COVID-19. Instead those individuals will receive an automated message. IDPH notifications to COVID-19 cases previously had included a call-back option from contact tracers and individual case investigations of persons 65 years of age and older.
The new notification will be . . .
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