Warren County
Warren County published a list of businesses that had COVID exposures over approximately the past 14 days. Bolton Landing, Glens Falls, Johnsburg, and Queensbury all had businesses with exposures.
Restaurants and bars along with grocery stores were exposed, according to the county. The list of businesses can be seen in the photo. Click to enlarge the photo above.
People who were at the businesses at the times specified are asked to self-monitor for symptoms of COVID-19 for 14 days from the time they were at the business. Those symptoms include cough, fever, chills, or loss of the sense of taste or smell.
For a business, an exposure to COVID is not an instant mandate to close or even to announce the problem, Don Lehman wrote in an email. He is the director of public affairs for the county.
He wrote that contact tracers “look at the circumstances of these visits to businesses, and then decide whether a public advisory is warranted.”
The circumstances cover the sort of exposure the business had, that is, whether the person wore a mask, was symptomatic, or was outdoors or in a well ventilated room, among others.
If the county’s public health office believes its warranted, the business is added to the list and the public is notified.
“Particular concern in recent weeks have been restaurants and bars, where people are obviously unmasked to eat and spend longer periods of time,” he wrote.
Public Health does work with businesses where clusters of numerous cases are found to go over cleaning protocols and discuss shutdowns to ensure disinfection.
"Businesses in our county have been very cooperative throughout this process," Lehman wrote.