(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The Will County Health Department says people who test positive for the coronavirus are, generally, not being cooperative when contact tracers call them.
Will County was recently one of 14 counties put on the state's COVID “warning” list, so officials are trying to get more of a handle on the spread of coronavirus.
According to Health Department sopkesman Steve Brandy, contact tracers have been calling people who test positive and asking them who they’ve been with recently and where they’ve been.
The contact tracers want to be able to contact those people to let them know they may have been exposed and should be tested for COVID-19.
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There's been some pushback, Brandy said: "A lot of people are just nervous to talk. They might be friendly at first, but then what happens is, ‘Oh, I don’t want to tell on my friend. I don’t want to tattle-tale on somebody’."
He said it's not a matter of being a “tattle-tale.” Rather, he said, it’s about “saving lives."
The county has about 30 contact tracers now and is hiring about 30 more, Brandy said.