New Johns Hopkins Course to Train Coronavirus Contact Tracers

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health rolled out a new online course on contact tracing, the first step in an effort to train thousands of people who will work to help limit the spread of the novel coronavirus in New York state

Officials at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on Monday rolled out a new online course on contact tracing, the first step in an effort to train thousands of people who will work to help limit the spread of the novel coronavirus in New York state.

Contact tracing is a long-practiced technique for infectious diseases, where public-health workers track down and interview patients to determine anyone they came into contact with while infectious.

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