ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Contact tracers say at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in Orange County, they were making hundreds of calls each day tracking down people who may have been exposed. "Contact tracing is the process of finding out who’s been exposed to a positive case," said Charles Letizia, an epidemiologist with the Florida Department of Health, Orange County.
Letizia said each person who tested positive for the coronavirus had an average of five close contacts with people where they could have spread it.
He said he and his team work hard to contact those people to head off the spread. “We get to know their story. Everyone has a story,” he said.