Arizona needs a sprawling network of contact tracers to track and halt the spread of covid-19. Some researchers believe that an effective tracking system will require a few hundred contact tracers for a population the size of Arizona.
Last week I wrote about how the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials had developed a free on-demand training for entry-level COVID-19 contact tracers. The course, called Making Contact: A Training for COVID-19 Contact Tracers supports ongoing public health agency efforts to prepare new contact tracers for their work of helping identify COVID-19 positive cases and those with whom they have been in close contact.
This week the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health unveiled a similar 5 hour online Course that’s designed teach non-public health professionals the fundamentals of contact tracing.
