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    Chrisabel Bofill
    Participant

    Hello everyone,

    Our camp went through the CLIA Waiver process and got approved! We plan to use rapid COVID testing for any symptomatic individuals as a first line. Of course, the rapid test will not replace a professional molecular test, but it will help us be able to make decisions more quickly depending on what the results are.

    Anyway, I am confused on what I need to do as far as reporting the results with the CDC and our state department of health. The guidelines seem very daunting. Has anyone done this before that can simplify the process for me?

    Thank you!

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    Amanda Cook
    Member

    Hi Chrisabel, You will not have to report anything directly to the CDC. Each state health department is reponsible for that process. You should only be required to report to your state health department. If reporting information isn’t listed on your state’s Covid site, look under their reportable diseases pages. Some will have paper reports that need to be faxes in to the HD each day, others will have an online reporting database.

    I’m in TN, and our clinic had to register with the state’s online reporting database. At the end of each day, we log in to input all our results, both positive and negative. The state takes it from there.

    If you can find a contact at your local county/metro health department, I would strongly recommend speaking with them as to whether they would like to have you also call them directly since camp is essentially a congregate setting. That may help you and them start the contact tracing process a a day or two earlier, which would benefit everyone.

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