Nearly 1,400 Yellowstone employee surveillance tests conducted on front-line employees with zero positives; Zero symptomatic COVID-19 cases in employees or visitors since mid-July

News Release Date: August 18, 2020

Speak to: Morgan Warthin, (307) 344-2015

MAMMOTH Very hot SPRINGS, WY –  

Employee Surveillance Testing  

In partnership with the states of Montana and Wyoming and encompassing counties, Yellowstone National Park has executed approximately 1,400 staff (asymptomatic) surveillance checks considering that early June (346 tests in the earlier three months) on front-line personnel and all take a look at success have been destructive. Additional facts about the surveillance tests exertion is available in park news releases dated June 30 and June 4.
 

• Whole checks carried out to date: 1,499
• Whole assessments with detrimental outcomes: 1,378
• Whole assessments with constructive success:
• Full assessments with results pending: 121

Zero-Favourable Symptomatic Circumstances in People or Workers

Yellowstone employees

The two Yellowstone concession staff who analyzed favourable for COVID-19 in July have recovered. These scenarios are no lengthier lively, and no other workers have analyzed beneficial in the past 4 months out of a workforce of somewhere around 2,000. In accordance with the Facilities for Disorder Command and Prevention steerage, the park proceeds to proactively quarantine personnel who have signs.

People

No guests have examined positive in the final 4 months in any of Yellowstone’s clinical clinics. There have been about 1.66 million visits to the park considering the fact that it opened on May well 18. 

Wastewater Testing

The park carries on to examination wastewater with quite a few encompassing counties in Wyoming and Montana. Information gathered enables the park to monitor ranges of COVID-19 in wastewater at the park’s most well known developed regions (Mammoth Incredibly hot Springs and Old Trustworthy).

Latest samples taken from the Mammoth Scorching Springs wastewater program indicated non-detectable amounts of COVID-19. Samples taken from the Previous Devoted system indicated in the vicinity of non-detectable stages. Pay a visit to Wyoming Office of Health Wastewater Check for specifics.

Wastewater tests for COVID-19 is a new engineering and interpretation of the outcomes is not effectively understood. At this time, the park hopes that results will be helpful to discover tendencies.

The park, in partnership with the Wyoming Section of Health, will routinely choose and take a look at wastewater samples for a year to most effective protect community wellbeing.