Rising COVID-19 case numbers prompt stay-home advisory in Cabell County while other counties try to keep up with contact tracing
The effectiveness of contact tracing as a health intervention for COVID-19 declines as case numbers rise and the physician director of the Cabell-Huntington Health Department said that is what is happening right now in Cabell County.
“As the incidence rate goes up, contact tracing — while we continue to do it and it still has an important role — it becomes less protective for people,” said Dr. Michael Kilkenny, a day after the Cabell-Huntington Health Department issued a Stay-At-Home Advisory.