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1 more passenger tests positive
Saipan Tribune
The Sara Alert System will be for a time period of 14 days and will alert health officials/public health staff if an individual missed their daily check.
VDH COVID-19 Update: What parents can expect for the return to this school this year
Vermont Biz
Visit our Travel to Vermont web page for continually updated information and guidance, including about quarantine requirements, testing, and to sign up with Sara Alert for symptom check reminders.
Hill County Health Board discusses Sara Alert, and COVID-19 trends
The Havre Daily News
The report said the department has also installed a new system called Sara Alert that allows people who’ve tested positive for COVID-19, or have been potentially exposed to it, to report their daily symptoms.
“We see this as a force multiplier and a way to apply our time more efficiently,” Wendland read from the report. Public Health Nurse Jessica Kennedy-Stiffarm said so far the system appears to be working very well.
Contact tracing and essential health services discussed in county officials meeting
The Havre Daily News
Larson said in a meeting last week that her department was starting to feel a bit overwhelmed by the amount of work involved in contact tracing and Thursday she detailed some things the department is doing to remedy the issue.
The first was using a system called Sara Alert which Larson said is designed to make contact tracing more efficient and was installed in the department on Wednesday.
She said she hopes will take some of the burden off of her employees so the essential services her department would normally be working on this time of year can be continued.
Wilkes-Barre health staff investigated over 500 coronavirus cases in the city
Wilkes-Barre Citizens Voice
Contact tracers do not use anyone’s cellphone to track them if they are supposed to be in self-quarantine. They can use a cellphone to sign up for the SARA Alert system, which allows them to receive a web link via text message to report to the health department if they have become symptomatic while under self-quarantine, Torbik said.
Tracking and Trust: Coronavirus tracing apps brings up host of issues
Belgrade News
On July 29, Gallatin County launched a pilot app called Sara Alert, developed by the MITRE Corporation, that allows individuals who have been exposed to or tested positive for COVID-19 to report daily symptoms via email, text message or robocall.
Contact tracing not up and running
Mount Desert Islander
Two weeks after Mount Desert Island Hospital and the state CDC announced a partnership that would allow the hospital to participate in the state’s Sara Alert system for contact tracing, the system is not yet up and running. “MDI Hospital continues to work on the necessary credentialing, training and system revisions needed to engage … in the public health reporting processes,” hospital spokesperson Oka Hutchins said in an email Tuesday. The hospital and CDC teams “have had numerous phone calls,” CDC director Dr. Nirav Shah said last week.
Don’t decline contact tracing calls, state says
Hot Springs Sentinel
The website notes if you haven’t spoken to a contact tracer on the phone to enroll in the automated SARA Alert program for reporting symptoms, beware of text messages asking you to click on a link. A tracer will not send you any links to click before speaking with you on the phone.
Berrien County Board OKs 9 new health department posts to aid in contact tracing
Herald Palladium
Commissioners further approved the health department using the free Sara Alert software and program to help keep track of the contact tracing more efficiently. Britten said it was developed by the Mitre Corp. and the Association of Public Health Laboratories and has been recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Streets busy, cases low
Mount Desert Islander
The CDC granted the hospital the public health jurisdiction to use the Sara Alert contact tracing system to track symptoms of those who have come into contact with a positive case here, even if the positive case is a visitor.