As state ramps up contact tracing, some local health directors feel out of the loop

Lexington Herald Leader: Cathy Bethel has lived in Muhlenberg County for more than 30 years.

The “hometown, family atmosphere” in this western Kentucky county of about 30,000 makes her job as director of the Muhlenberg County Health Department all the more intimate and rewarding, she said. Her personal cell phone number is listed on the department’s after-hours voicemail. When she ventures in public, she factors in a certain cushion of time, anticipating she’ll be stopped and chatted up.

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