Contact tracing, a method that helps track and control the spread of infection, is slipping out of Hays County’s grip. With new cases spiking, limited testing, people not participating in contact tracing and backed up labs, the coronavirus is rapidly spreading. The Hays County Health Department said...

The largest age-group that has contracted COVID-19 in Hays County is 20-29 year olds, making up more than half of the county’s case load. Young people have received some blame for being callous, but not all those who got the illness were ignoring social distancing rules. While cases have been on the...

Hays County’s health department has been doing contact tracing since it found its first coronavirus-infected patient, and this method has helped the department hold down the spread of COVID-19 in several instances. “It has helped us to identify a couple of clusters that were linked back to people wh...