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Mar 18 2024
News
Ex-city employee charged with pocketing $13,000 for pretending to do COVID contact tracing
In the midst of COVID-19 pandemic, a now-former city employee pocketed about $13,000 by falsely claiming she was reaching out to victims of the deadly disease, according to a criminal complaint charging her with felony theft. Keyonna Selkridge was assigned 111 contact tracing cases — that is, tracking the movements of people who had been exposed to the COVID virus, the complaint filed by the
Milwaukee Journal SentinelApr 23 2020
News
Methods to Implement Contact Tracing
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As America begins to look beyond the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, conversations have begun about different methods for implementing contact tracing, which the CDC calls a "core disease control measure." Abridge NewsOct 09 2020
Fact Check
The state of US contact tracing: Is it working?
The White House’s struggle to get ahead of the coronavirus outbreak within its walls reflects a problem public health officials have felt for months as they’ve tried to help their communities fight the pandemic: The U.S. is not contact tracing as well as it could be.
Contact tracing, the practice of informing people who have been exposed to an infected person, is a key component of the
PolitiFactAug 07 2020
News
Coronavirus Cases Are Surging. The Contact Tracing Workforce Is Not
The country needs as many as 100,000 contact tracers to fight the pandemic, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Congress in June. We need billions of dollars to fund them, public health leaders pleaded in April.
But in August, with coronavirus cases increasing in more than half of states, America has neither the staff nor the resources to be able to trace
NPR (Online News)Jun 12 2020
Analysis
Can Coronavirus Contact Tracing Survive Reopening?
ohn Welch, a nurse anesthetist with the nonprofit Partners in Health, was working at a clinic on the rural central plateau of Haiti when, in August of 2014, he got a call asking if he could fly to Liberia. The charity had just agreed to help in the fight against Ebola, which had cropped up in Guinea that winter and was now spreading rapidly across West Africa. Welch, who specializes in
The New YorkerDec 11 2020
Opinion
Contact tracing apps promised big and didn't deliver
California rolled out a COVID-19 contact tracing app this week, and officials — including Apple CEO Tim Cook — touted it as an advancement that would help slow their ongoing surge in cases. Using the app will be easy. Measuring whether the app can deliver will be harder.
Nine months after Apple and Google first announced their partnership, contact tracing apps’ role in reducing viral
The VergeNov 02 2020
Data
The Challenges of Contact Tracing as U.S. Battles COVID-19
As states mount large-scale contact tracing efforts to identify and isolate those who have contracted COVID-19, a Pew Research Center survey conducted in July finds that Americans have a variety of views that could complicate the ongoing efforts of public health authorities battling the outbreak.
On the one hand, majorities of Americans say they would be at least somewhat comfortable or
Pew Research CenterApr 25 2023
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Active Tuberculosis Case Identified At Joppatowne High School, Contact Tracing Underway
Parents, guardians and staff all were alerted to the situation Monday by the Harford County Health Department, which is working with the Maryland Department of Health on contact tracing. The health department will provide testing and free treatment if necessary. All parents, guardians and staff received a letter and a fact sheet from the health department. The school sent an automated call
Patch.comAug 04 2020
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Local governments ‘overwhelmed’ in race to trace U.S. COVID contacts
The soaring number of COVID-19 cases in the United States has far outstripped many local health departments’ ability to trace the contacts of those infected, a step critical in containing the virus’ spread.
With the pandemic claiming about a thousand American lives a day, many city and county departments say they lack the money and staff to expeditiously identify people who have been
ReutersMar 19 2024
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Havana ailment traces not found
WASHINGTON -- An array of advanced tests found no brain injuries or degeneration among U.S. diplomats and other government employees who suffer mysterious health problems once dubbed "Havana syndrome," researchers reported Monday. The National Institutes of Health's nearly five-year study offers no explanation for symptoms including headaches, balance problems and difficulties with thinking
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette