Contact tracing is a means to identify newly infected individuals early by finding those at high risk because of a significant contact with a proven infected person. To effectively implement contact tracing, UK will:

• Initiate contact tracing for incident cases (positive PCR-based viral testing) in faculty, students and staff.
• Implement a hybrid approach that combines “in-person” contact tracing with digital technology implemented as appropriate, based on emerging technology and data.
• Partner where possible with state and other local and national partnerships to best collect, assess and contact individuals that are exposed to infected people.
• Develop an educational program for the campus community to train and certify individuals to initiate contact tracing, using established protocols for reporting.
• Create and implement plans for a digital approach to assist contact tracing efforts, which will be assessed as data and technology emerges.
• Outline safeguards to ensure consent is obtained and confidentially provided for those involved in contact tracing.
• Develop a process for ensuring that exposed individuals – as indicated by contact tracing – are assessed by a health care provider and that testing and quarantining are considered based on the details of the interaction and current evidence.
• Ensure that facilities are available to accommodate people requiring isolation who do not have opportunities for appropriate isolation off campus.
• Assess and monitor mental health needs during any form of isolation.
• Continue with guidelines requiring that community members testing positive should self isolate until at least 14 days have passed from their initial symptom onset date and they have been fever-free for three days with improvement in their respiratory symptoms.
• Continue to monitor and understand (a) background coronavirus infection rates at UK and (b) asymptomatic transmission to allow interruption of undetected transmission chains.