The Ohio Department of Health has recommended that local health departments shift their practice of COVID-19 contact tracing to a model that follows clusters of cases and not individual diagnoses.
He said Thursday that the instruction to local health departments would cover outbreaks in crowded settings such as homeless shelters, correctional facilities and nursing homes.
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