The number of people testing positive for COVID-19 in Greene County continues in a dramatic upward trend.

Greene County Public Health Director Becky Wolf says some of the increase is due to more people testing for the virus. She points out that when in doubt, get tested because it can help them determine other individuals that they didn’t know had the virus. Wolf describes the other reasons for the huge swing in positive cases.

“I do feel that we, as a whole, have become a bit complacent. We want our lives back. We’re just maybe taking a little bit more chances than we initially were a few months ago, and it’s starting to really ramp up.”

Wolf urges everyone to wear a mask, and she talks about how masks have helped decrease the number of people in one particular area of concern.

“We have seen that significantly drop the number of staff and students in our schools having to be quarantined for 14 days because they were in contact, or potential contact (with someone who tested positive for COVID-19).”

Wolf says the new guidance from Governor Kim Reynolds that if someone who tested positive for COVID-19 is interacting with others, and everyone is wearing masks, the exposed individuals do not have to be quarantined. To hear more from Wolf about COVID-19 and its impacts in Greene County, listen to today’s Community State Bank in Paton Let’s Talk Greene County program.