Officials make plans for sentinel testing

Jefferson County Health Department Officials are currently working with St. James Hospital about possible sentinel testing.

A release from the county stated they have been working with St. James on getting this planned for county residents, but no dates or times have been established as both entities are busy and short-staffed.

In an article from the Missoula Current, Public Health Nurse Pam Boyd discussed sentinel testing in Missoula.

"It's a surveillance system where we look at specific groups of people who we feel are at high risk for either getting the disease or spreading the disease,...