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You are here: Home / FEATURED POSTS / Health Department Announces Potential COVID-19 Exposure at the Windy Gap Young Life Camp, Weaverville NC

Health Department Announces Potential COVID-19 Exposure at the Windy Gap Young Life Camp, Weaverville NC

August 6, 2020 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article 0 Comments

 The Hamilton County Health Department announces exposure to positive cases of COVID 19 with participants that attended the Windy Gap Young Life Camp, 120 Coles Cove Rd, Weaverville, NC between July 24 and July 31, 2020.

Case investigations revealed that persons from Hamilton County attended the camp while in their infectious period. It is recommended that anyone who attended this camp during these dates get tested and monitor their symptoms.

If COVID-19 symptoms occur, do not leave your house except to visit a testing location or healthcare provider. If symptoms become worse, seek medical care quickly. Symptoms of COVID-19 may include fever, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, recent change in smell or taste, headache, diarrhea, nausea or vomiting, or other symptoms as recognized by the CDC.

“If you have been exposed to someone with the virus you should get tested, quarantine from others for 14 days and monitor yourself for symptoms,” said Health Department Administrator Becky Barnes.”

Free Health Department COVID-19 testing is available at the following locations and times:

  • The Health Department’s testing siteat the Alstom Plant, 1125 Riverfront Parkway, Chattanooga, TN 37402,is open daily from 7 AM-11 AM.
  • Saturday, August 8, at Faith Family Chattanooga Church, 2505 E 43rd St, Chattanooga, TN 37407, from 10 AM-1 PM.
  • Sunday, August 9, at Faith Family Chattanooga Church, 2505 E 43rd St, Chattanooga, TN 37407, from 12 PM-3 PM.


These sites are open to the public without an appointment or referral. Free transportation is available. Call (423) 315-3994 to make a reservation Monday-Friday 8 AM-6 PM, Saturday and Sunday 10 AM-2 PM. Rides to the testing sites must be scheduled the previous day.

For more information, please call the Health Department’s COVID-19 hotline at (423) 209-8383. The hotline is open

Monday-Friday 8 AM-4 PM and Saturday 10 AM-3 PM. Do not call the Young Life Camp for information related to COVID-19 exposures.

 

 

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About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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