CONTACT TRACING
CAREER OUTLOOK NOW HIRING: 300,000 CONTACT TRACERS When Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), spoke with NPR in early April, he said his agency is working on a plan to safely reopen the United States. According to Redfield, the initiative will involve ramped-up testing, and, “very aggressive” contact tracing to “block and tackle.” A
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Contact Tracing: Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Contact Tracing: America Needs ‘An Army of 300,000 People’
Washington D.C.-based group, which aims to help agencies expand contact tracing teams, has called contact tracing the largest civilian mobilization since World War II. In this edition of Career Outlook, we look at why the CDC is asking America to train a large contact tracer workforce, and why one former CDC director said state and local public health departments need to hire 300,000 people from the ranks of “college graduates, people working at social service agencies, social workers, child health workers, and people doing Meals on Wheels.”