A robust contact tracing program is key to reopening the country, experts say. Now, a five-hour online course created by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health could become the backbone of the country's contact tracer training program.
A robust contact tracing program is key to reopening the country, experts say."Contact tracing breaks the chain of transmission of the virus," Dr. Kelly Henning, an epidemiologist and director of Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Health program, told ABC News.
Epidemiology Professor Emily Gurley of the Bloomberg School of Public Health works from home during the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown. Dr. Gurley is training students and colleagues to do contact tracing work with the Baltimore City Health Department. Epidemiology Professor Emily Gurley of the Bloomberg School of Public Health works from home during the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown. Dr. Gurley is training students and colleagues to do contact tracing work with the Baltimore City Health Department."When a contact is unaware that they've been in touch with someone, or been close to someone who was a case, they go about their usual business and they infect people all along the way," Henning said.
To stop the cycle of infection, tracers need to very quickly inform contacts that they've potentially been exposed to the virus, Henning explained. They also need to convince those exposed contacts to agree to stay at home, indoors, for 14 days.An image made from video depicts a simulated interview by a contract tracer with a person who was infected with novel coronavirus.
An image made from video depicts a simulated interview by a contract tracer with a person who was infected with novel coronavirus.As part of New York's contact tracer pilot program, Gov. Andrew Cuomothat he will hire at least 30 contact tracers for every 100,000 individuals in regions across the state, with additional tracers brought on in harder-hit areas.
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