Community Trace: Rapid Establishment of a Volunteer Contact Tracing Program for COVID-19

Overview

Journal Am J Public Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 2020 Nov 19

PMID 33211580

Citations 11

Authors

Linda Niccolai

Tyler Shelby

Brian Weeks

Christopher Schenck

Justin Goodwin

Rachel Hennein

Meghan Rossini

Jennifer Vazquez

Dorothyann van Rhijn

James Meek

Maritza Bond

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Abstract

Contact tracing was one of the core public health strategies implemented during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this essay, we describe the rapid establishment of a volunteer contact tracing program in New Haven, Connecticut. We describe successes of the program and challenges that were faced. Going forward, contact tracing efforts can best be supported by increased funding to state and local health departments for a stable workforce and use of evidence-based technological innovations.

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