What's happening with COVID-19 contact tracing? State resources are now focused on cases involving new variants, schools and high-risk settings.
to beef up its contact tracing efforts, allowing the health department to hire 400 people. The city of Chicago received more than $50 million to boost its community-led efforts.
Instead, resources will be focused on cases involving new variants, schools and high-risk settings, like long-term care facilities and other congregate settings, as well as other outbreaks, according to Arwady. “We’re going to be making sure we are putting extra resources into anything unusual.”the city of Chicago picked the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership to spend $56 million
“They’re incredibly inspiring, hard-working and thoughtful,” Stonehouse said, adding workers were eager to take on new tasks as the pandemic evolved. “That kind of willingness and determination is amazing to work with.”program since its launch last year, with 612 working at its height, according to Stonehouse. Currently, around 500 people are employed through the program, which has been extended by the city’s health department through the end of the year.
Program participants are also briefed about open positions within the health department and other city departments during weekly meetings, according to Stonehouse. “Contact tracing any and everybody has lost its usefulness,” Rubin said, adding the department has focused its resources on high-risk groups, like people living in long-term care facilities and congregate settings, as well as schools. “The surge center basically took over the direct case investigation and contact tracing of almost all the cases.
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