MEDFORD, Ore. — After being placed on Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s coronavirus watch list, Jackson County said that might not be a bad thing when it comes to getting additional help. Counties are added to the watch list when the ...
MEDFORD, Ore. — Jackson County Public Health says its worrisome that around a quarter of coronavirus cases in the county are un-traceable. Dr. Jim Shames says around 250 to 300 people are being traced in the county. He says the ...
MEDFORD, Ore. — “We just want to know anonymously where the virus has come from and where the virus has gone, and if people don’t help us provide that link then we’re in the dark,” said Dr. Jim Shames, Jackson ...
MEDFORD, Ore. — Public health officials around southern Oregon are seeing an uptick in the number of COVID-19 cases in the area. With the overall number of cases spiking in Oregon, a lot of the work falls to contact tracers ...
MEDFORD, Ore. — As coronavirus cases spread throughout communities, county public health departments are tasked with figuring out who coronavirus patients have been in contact with. The process is called contact tracing. While the term may be new to the ...