All CES ‘Safety Options’ Being Studied, Says CTA When We Asked About Contact Tracing
CTA is “seven months away” from CES 2021 and is “looking at all health and safety options,” emailed Karen Chupka, executive vice president-CES, when we asked if the show plans to use any COVID-19 contact tracing protocol. “We'll share more…
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updates in the coming months," she said Thursday. CES 2021 is scheduled for Jan. 6-9 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. CTA will "continue to evaluate and expand the measures we put in place" for CES, it said in a May 7 update that didn't mention contact tracing. If a CES attendee who isn't a Clark County, Nevada, resident is diagnosed with COVID-19 after returning home from Las Vegas, it would not be reported to Clark County but to the patient’s state or local health department, said the Southern Nevada Health District in April (see 2004240041). The protocol, common to local health jurisdictions throughout the country, points up the difficulty of confirming whether COVID-19 can be traced directly to CES.