The Whitehall Ledger - Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana

Jefferson County Public Health is moving to automated COVID-19 contact tracing beginning Wednesday, June 1, 2022. We are moving away from universal contact tracing and will now send SMS text messages to positive COVID-19 individuals in our county.

Automated contact tracing allows our staff to provide a quick, efficient, and more streamlined process of providing information to our residents.

This system also empowers the public to act when they suspect a COVID-19 infection. These text messages will include information on isolation and a link to a secure survey. We ask the survey to be fil...