Health Dept issues warning about recent exposure
Dubois County Health Department announced the fourth identified COVID-19 case attended Mass at St. Celestine on March 15.
The positive case is not a child and is an adult individual. The individual’s employer has been notified. Through the investigation, a potential risk exposure to certain individuals in a public setting has been identified. The patient was identified to have attended the St. Isidore Catholic Parish, St. Celestine Church service on Sunday, March 15, 2020.
If you were present at this facility, at that date and time, and have developed fever, cough, difficulty breathing, chills, body aches, sore throat, headache, nausea/vomiting, runny nose, weakness, or diarrhea, please self-quarantine and contact your primary care provider for additional guidance.
If you do not have a primary care physician, please call the Indiana State Department of Health at: 317-233-7125/ after-hours 317-233-1325 or the Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center Alternative Screening Site at 812.996.6330.
THANK YOU ! For this expanded information. This is what we need to know!
Wonders never cease. Seriously, thanks to the health dept (assume) for releasing this information on #4 to the public. Even though a different scenario here in wanting to alert others, people would still appreciate and potentially benefit from similar contact or area/community info for infections #1, 2, and 3 – it’s not too late, esp in light of what’s been updated today about asymptomatic transmissions. It’s hoped that this sort of info will be timely (minimal delay) shared in the future for any others that may emerge.
It would help some people that were there if they know in which section they sat in!
Why is it never released where the said person is Employed? Contacting the employer doesn’t mean the Employer will notify it’s others employees. This is very good information but listing the place of employment would be very helpful and help the spread of this virus! I have been told by a manager of a retail store that they were advised by their superiors that if anyone tested positive within the company they were stay silent, deny it if asked and they were not to tell any other employees! How can people truly protect themselves?
March 15 was almost 21 days or three weeks ago. The incubation period for this disease is 1-14 days. Would the person even have had the disease at the time of the Mass? I do applaud the work you are doing and for sharing such information.