Johnson County says close contact tracing of COVID-19 in schools ‘no longer feasible’

Amid a record surge in COVID-19 cases, the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment has told local school districts that “intensive contact tracing within schools is no longer feasible.” The flood of new cases, fueled in part by the highly contagious Omicron variant, has made it practically impossible for JCDHE officials and school nurses to keep up with the often time-consuming task of tracking down who an infected person may have been in contact with. JCDHE says, instead, priority should now be given to identifying positive cases and isolating them.
Source: Shawnee Mission Post