The Oneida County executive is showing residents the chain reaction that can happen from one person testing positive for coronavirus and failing to follow guidelines.
A local football coach....and church leader....for not cooperating in the county's covid-19 contact tracing efforts.
--and allegedly stopping others from cooperating as well.
The county executive says that one case has led to a chain reaction of cases in at least one school district....and neighboring communities.
Newschannel two's jason powles is live here in the studio with how far this has spread.
Kristen good evening....that school district and community is holland patent....right now....there are nine positive cases so far from stemming from adult "a" on this chart....according to county executive anthony picente...that adult continued normal business while symptomatic and then caused a chain reaction that now has nearly 100 in quarantine and stretches over multiple communities and two school districts.
Picente laid out the contact tracing stemming from adult "a".
He describes the individual as a father who infected members of his family... who in turn exposed, a football practice, church youth group, music lessons, school and other families.
The county executive says this is the carelessness that can be avoided if we do things the right way.
But right now...the contact tracing has hit a snag in this case.
Contact tracing is difficult in and of it's self with threful of responsible adults that are supposed to be in the case of coaching church groups some type of education to deny those names to the county health department during a pandemic is outrageous and we will be looking and exhausting all of our legal reach to determine what action can be taken against this individual and individuals if we do not get the information we need they health department is urging those that may have been exposed in those communities at church, at a practice and so on to contact them at 315-798-5431 between 830 and 430.
Again picente says they are looking at legal means against these individuals that will not provide contact tracing information.
Kristen back to you.
District Superintendent Jason Evangelist says this is due to COVID related concerns
District Superintendent Jason Evangelist says this is due to a covid related concern