Contact tracing takes a back seat during latest COVID surge

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Some states trimmed their contact tracing teams this spring and summer when virus numbers were dropping and are now scrambling to train new investigators.

FILE - In this Monday, May 11, 2020, photo, Salt Lake County Health Department public health nurse Lee Cherie Booth points to a board showing a hypothetical case that serves as a training tool to teach new contact tracers how to track all the people they need to reach out to after a person tests positive for the new coronavirus. Health investigators across the U.S.

Mississippi has 150 staff working full time to identify people who have had close contact with an infected person, but they are swamped, too. Maldonado said it’s a “staple of public health” and can be the only way someone can find out a stranger may have potentially exposed them to the disease.Story continues

In Idaho, a new public health website, VolunteerIdaho.com, encourages people with health care skills or a simple willingness to volunteer for Idaho’s Medical Reserve Corps. Among the volunteers they are seeking are people who can with contact tracing and data entry

 

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Waste of time and money

Get your obesity vaccine now people👍🏼😂

Easy tip: Anyone who went to the Sturgis rally and the whole city they live in.

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