Inside the system a Winterset school is using to contact trace virus exposures
Courtney Bowen and Brittany Salton, both employees at Winterset Middle School, hope their positions are not needed next school year. Author: Lakyn McGee Updated: 5:37 PM CST February 11, 2021
WINTERSET, Iowa Winterset Middle School has two contact tracers keeping up with both students and staff.
It s a lot for Courtney Bown and Brittany Salton, but the two are using a Google Docs system with assigned seating of every student in every classroom to make it easier to know who to contact in case of an exposure.
“We can look at that and if we need to see who that student is sitting by. We make sure they have masks on, Bowen said. Both parties have to have a mask on not to quarantine and then we see if they ate lunch together or if they were at recess or at PE together.”