'Not to be overdramatic, but if done correctly, this will save lives,' said Brian Holzer, CEO of Lacuna Health, which is partnering with Louisville, Kentucky, to ramp up contact tracing.
defining its expectations for local departments and calling on them to "scale up and train a large case investigation and contact tracer workforce."
But in Maricopa County, where the virus has hit hardest in Arizona, the county health department has so far hired 82 tracers, spokesperson Fields Moseley told CNBC, and intends to hire 20 more. That would work out to be just more than 2 tracers per 100,000 residents in the county. The course gives students a rundown of what's known about the virus: how long a person can be presymptomatic, when is someone no longer infectious, what qualifies as a close contact and more. While the course is helping to train a workforce on a scale that epidemiologists hoped would never be needed and never prepared for, Gurley said that ideally, contact tracing is done by classically trained epidemiologists with an intimate understanding of infectious diseases.
"I think that there's still often an under-appreciation of how difficult this work is and really what we're up against, frankly," she said. "This isn't something that is just a fire drill and then in a couple months it can be over. You really have to invest in these programs, and follow them closely and get them working well and keep after it with the hard slog required to make them worthwhile.
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