Contact Tracing
How it Works
Confirmed Positive Case
National Jewish Health informs the COVID communicator of a positive case or a community member self-submits their positive results via email, phone, text or through the Everbridge app.
Tracing
A trained DU contact tracer determines where the positive individual was on campus and with whom they had contact during the 10 days prior to the positive individual’s testing. This will include information from the interviewed individual who is positive, from the digital app, and from verified records (e.g. registrar data).
Notification
The tracer reaches out to the individual first and then notifies anyone who was believed to have been in close contact or in the vicinity of the individual who tested positive.
Action
Depending on the duration of exposure and proximity to the positive individual, the contact tracer will suggest a course of action to those exposed.
Close contact: Within six feet of a positive individual for 15 minutes or more
Recommendation: Quarantine; required to remain off campus for 14 days from exposureIn the vicinity: In the same room at greater than six feet for more than 15 minutes or within six feet for fewer than 15 minutes
Recommendation: Continue monitoring your symptoms as generally requiredOptional testing
Exposed individuals can opt to be tested at DU’s testing facility for free, either through an appointment or by walking up to the testing site, located in the parking lot of the Ritchie Center.
- Please wait to take a test until five days after exposure.
- Because of the virus’s incubation period, a negative test will not shorten the required quarantine window for those exposed at close contact.