NHB/NMRTC Bremerton Contact Tracer Team

NHB/NMRTC Bremerton Preventive Medicine department has been assigned with the herculean task of contact tracing for each positive COVID-19 contact investigation since day one of the ongoing pandemic outbreak. The preventive medicine technicians meticulously evaluate those who have tested positive for the coronavirus to determine if they have had close contact and exposed anyone and any place. Close contact is described as being within six feet of another for more than 15 minutes without proper personal protection equipment such as a cloth face covering. The team is made up of Hospital Corpsman 1st Class James Gibbens, Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Ryan Kowalski, Hospital Corpsmen 3rd Classes Brandon Bazeluk, Amanda Claborn, Brandon Fletcher, Phillip Gomez, and Ricardo Silva, augmented by HM2 Edwin Requeno and HM3 Stephen Hohner (Official Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs officer).