Public health experts say contact tracing will be crucial to re-opening public life. That's why Washington Gov. Jay Inslee plans to have 'roughly 1,500 workers focused solely on contact tracing by the second week of May.'
Washington says it will launch contact tracing teams to map coronavirus exposure. Here, public health nurse Jennifer Morgan, right, checks-in via phone with a patient self-quarantined at home in February. University of Washington epidemiology student Erika Feutz observes in Seattle.Washington says it will launch contact tracing teams to map coronavirus exposure. Here, public health nurse Jennifer Morgan, right, checks-in via phone with a patient self-quarantined at home in February.
That's a tall order for a public health system that's been"under-funded for years and years," according to Washington State Secretary of Health John Wiesman."We're starting from a system that was not robust in the first place, and now we are trying now to play catch-up." "We expect roughly 1,500 workers focused solely on contact tracing by the second week of May," Gov. Jay Inslee said in a televised speech Tuesday."This workforce will be rapid-response, something like a fire brigade."
Some of the contact-searching will be streamlined with software, such as online contact questionnaires. But Wiesman says it's still a lot of work:"It is, in part, that human touch, about developing a rapport so that people will share that information." "In most states there already are laws that ensure that people can't knowingly infect others without consequences," says Frieden."But I don't think that's what's needed here. What's needed here is a recognition that the patient and the contact are the VIP's of the program, and that there's a role for the entire community in finding wrap-around services for people... in home quarantine.
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