Update 03-21-2020
Bay County received confirmation of its first positive case of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, today. The person ill with the virus is a 47-year-old male non-Florida resident from Texas.
The Florida Department of Health in Bay County (DOH-Bay) is now conducting its contact investigation and working on identifying and notifying individuals who will need to self-monitor for symptoms for a 14-day period. Contact investigations are a critical way for staff epidemiologists to track and prevent the spread of disease.
DOH-Bay has been monitoring COVID-19 since January and been in contact with Bay County Emergency Management and medical providers to prepare response activities in the event we were to see cases in Bay