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Some States Plan To Big Increase In Contact Tracing Staff To ... - NPR

To establish those numbers, the United States needs a very large workforce of people to do contact tracing. Are we hiring enough people? NPR's ...

States Nearly Doubled Plans For Contact Tracers Since NPR ...

To safely reopen without risking new COVID-19 outbreaks, states need staff to do the crucial work of contact tracing. Public health agencies ...

How States Are Ramping Up Their COVID-19 Contact Tracing ...

Many are reassigning internal health department staff along with county and state employees to contact tracing roles, including swimming pool and restaurant ...

State Approaches to Contact Tracing during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Reflecting changes in CDC guidance, some states have stopped conducting universal contact tracing and are focusing efforts on outbreaks and at- ...

State of COVID-19 Contact Tracing in the U.S.

Congress should increase investment for contact tracing and self-isolation in the next federal COVID-19 relief package. While states are ...

A Framework for Sustainable Contact Tracing and Exposure ...

Following the identification of an employee or patient who is found to be COVID-19–positive, Mayo Clinic now uses a uniform process to perform contact tracing ...

States race to start coronavirus contact tracing, a monumental task ...

Minnesota health officials said they'll need to increase their contact tracing staff which is currently about 100 people, seven fold. North ...

How States Are Ramping Up their COVID-19 Contact Tracing Capacity

Contracting: Six states have announced plans to contract a large portion ... States also vary in their approaches to contact tracing, with some ...

States scramble to contain Covid spikes without enough workers to ...

The failure to stage the tracing workforce harks back to U.S. officials' inability to build up adequate testing in the early days of the ...

Case Investigation and Contact Tracing in US State and Local ...

Our research builds on previous work to identify the baseline CI/CT capacities needed in US state and local public health agencies to respond to any type of ...

How States are Bolstering a Contact Tracing Workforce - ASTHO

The federal government is also looking to assist with the expanded capacity. Earlier this month, ASTHO reviewed several pieces of federal ...

Contact Tracing Is Failing in Many States. Here's Why.

Inadequate testing and protracted delays in producing results have crippled tracking and hampered efforts to contain major outbreaks.

Contact tracing is a race. But few U.S. states say how fast they're ...

What happens next is critical. Public health workers have a small window of time to track down everyone Person A had close contact with over the ...

How states are handling the challenges of contact tracing | AMA

Dr. Plescia: It's mostly that I think they have been able to hire a pretty significant number of contact tracers. They've really looked at ...

NACCHO Position Statement - Building COVID-19 Contact Tracing ...

Therefore, it is critical that any plan allow for flexibility of staff roles that can be hired to take on contact tracing duties during this ...

A Coordinated, National Approach to Scaling Public Health Capacity ...

Contact tracing, monitoring, and provision of social supports to infected individuals and their contacts is an urgent priority of local, state, territorial, and ...

Experts say the US needs teams ready to hunt down new Covid-19 ...

In response to the coming need, some cities and states have started developing contact tracing systems of their own, like Rutherford's program ...

Report COVID-19: State Health Actions

While hundreds of millions of Americans are protected through vaccination, COVID-19 testing remains a critical tool in targeting public health responses and ...

National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan - The Rockefeller Foundation

... strong leadership and collaboration: across states, cities, and ... some relaxation of social distancing will depend on the vigilance of contact tracing.

A National Plan to Enable Comprehensive COVID-19 Case Finding ...

contact tracing center with 190 Ministry of Health staff. ... remotely and conduct contact tracing via phone or using other technologies, but some.