Symptoms
The first day a contact or case begins to feel sick. This day is used to calculate the end of isolation.
What is symptom onset?
The length of quarantine after an exposure to a positive case.
What is ten days?
The acronym PUI stands for this.
What is person under investigation?
The letters TVL are short for this type of contact who must quarantine in New York State.
What is a traveler?
The acronym DOH stands for this.
What is Department of Health?
One of the six different signs of medical emergency listed on the initial interview form.
What is:
-Trouble breathing
-Persistent pain or pressure in the chest
-New confusion
-Inability to wake or stay awake
-Bluish lips or face
-Severe injury
MQR is short for this.
What is mandatory quarantine release?
The official documentation from New York State, MQO stands for this.
What is mandatory quarantine order?
It is the responsibility of this person to register new contacts.
Who is a case investigator?
The letters LHD stand for this commonly used term among contact tracers and case investigators.
What is Local Health Department?
This is the typical period of time for symptom onset after exposure.
What is 12 to 14 days?
This date is used to calculate the quarantine end date for a contact who cannot avoid re-exposure to a positive case.
What is end of isolation?
"Reached person, agreed to call" and "Left a voicemail or SMS" are examples of this.
What are dispositions?
This term is used to describe someone who provides or performs critical functions, including infrastructure, public safety and medical services.
What is an essential worker?
The acronym for Amazon Web Services
What is AWS?
This term is used to refer to someone who has tested positive for Covid-19 but shows no symptoms.
What is asymptomatic?
In New York, this would be the only reason a person could be exempt from mandatory quarantine.
What is a positive Covid test in the last 90 days?
Effective 1/29/21, the one sentence we should all be saying at the beginning of each call.
What is "This call may be monitored for training purposes?"
In CommCare, this should be done after logging in and before logging out to make sure your work is shared with the system.
What is syncing?
HIPAA stands for this.
According to the CDC, a fever is at least this many degrees farenheit.
What is 100.4
When a contact lives with a positive case, this is the most common reason a quarantine will be extended past the original ten days.
What is re-exposure?
This is the preferred method of daily follow up for a school age child who is living with a case.
What is telephone follow-up?
The first resource a contact tracer should use when the contact record is missing or has an invalid phone number.
What is CT assist?
Also known as 2FA, this is a security measure that requires two forms of identification to grant access.
What is Two Factor Authentication?