On 3/9/2020, Sacramento County of California announced "it is no longer necessary for someone who has been in contact with someone with COVID-19 to quarantine for 14 days. This applies to the general public, as well as health care workers and first responders. ". Yolo County and Placer County follow suite the following day.

https://www.saccounty.net/news/latest-news/Pages/County-Announces-New-Mitigation-Efforts-COVID-19.aspx

We are asking these counties to backtrack on this policy change, and require tracking all individuals who have been in contact with someone with COVID-19 for quarantine.

According to CDC and Harvard, there have been reports of asymptomatic infection. Anybody exposed to COVID-19 can be a carrier unknowingly, endangering love ones and the general public.

Not quarantining individual means anybody can be a carrier which increases the likelihood of infection with unknown origin and speed up the community spread of the deadly COVID-19.

As of 3/9/2020, COVID-19 has killed 463 people with a mortality rate over 4% in Italy. Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died, so stopping the spread of COVID-19 is paramount. Containment does not need to be 1 or 0. By reducing the spread of COVID-19 and ensuring the health of our health care workers, we are more equipped to prevent further spread of COVID-19 in our community.

We need to work together to protect those most at risk, especially elderly and people with chronic health conditions. They cannot protect themselves if we (or doctors and nurses) are unknown carriers and when our health care system saturates taking care of those fallen sick, everybody is at risk.

Please sign this petition and contact your local representative to raise your concern as well.

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