Approximately 200 Delawareans will be hired as contact tracers
WILMINGTON, Del. – Governor John Carney on Tuesday announced that the State of Delaware entered into an agreement with the nonpartisan research institution NORC at the University of Chicago to build Delaware’s statewide contact tracing program to contain COVID-19, limit Delawareans’ exposure to the disease, and restart Delaware’s economy.
The contact tracing program builds on Delaware’s statewide plan to test up to 80,000 Delawareans monthly for COVID-19. Expanded testing and contact tracing efforts are key to reopening Delaware’s economy under guidance from the White House and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
NORC also has partnered with the State of Maryland to perform contact tracing. Delaware and Maryland will share information to more effectively monitor COVID-19’s spread across state lines.
Approximately 200 Delawareans will be hired as contact tracers and support staff.
Applications for contact tracers and other associated positions will be posted at de.gov/coronavirus in the coming weeks.
“To safely reopen our economy, we need to be able to quickly identify positive COVID-19 cases and reach out to those residents who may have been exposed. This contact tracing program brings us one step closer to returning Delaware to a new normal,” said Governor Carney. “We’ve been working with Maryland to coordinate our reopening efforts, and this partnership will build on that collaboration. Going forward, hiring a contact tracing workforce of Delawareans that reflects the diversity of our state will be a top priority.”
“This is a critically important complement to the statewide testing plan the Governor announced last week and the two plans are really integrally linked,” said DPH Director Dr. Karyl Rattay. “Contact tracing is a basic public health practice for containing an epidemiological event by talking with the person who is infected and reaching out to their contacts in order to decrease transmission. It will help us track positive cases of COVID-19 and limit the spread of the virus both short-term and long-term.”
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14 comments:
and so it begins
Why don't they just force every citizen to wear an ankle bracelet?
Both Carney and Coons need to be replaced with more conservative thinking people. Pelosi is setting the example for them to follow by spending taxpayer funds to support only liberal plans with the hope of buying votes. This trend needs to stop so we can have representatives that support ALL taxpayers.
Wow. Get ready for your microchip. If you thinks it’s bad now wait until you don’t get your vaccine. You won’t have the privilege of traveling outside of your town, flying, working or going to public venues.
You have got to be kidding me. We're making progress towards opening, and this moron wants to blow money keeping tabs on people. These are scary times.
If bar / restaurants must "log you in" to enter, I'll NEVER go back into one ever again.
I go out for conversation and I have no desire to converse with F**KING sheep that would agree to that.
Vote Republican!
"I don't remember"
Billions spent...ventilators, fed cost {15000 min per patient} temp hospitals, test kits, vaccine casing, contact tracing...billions in lost revenue and jobs and freedom and liberty....
ALL when HQC cost .60 cents per dose per day per patient, and its widely available, easy to get...major improvement in patients within 5 hours...
Are they this stupid? OR are we the people the stupid ones?
Why? All along contact tracing has been done by the local health departments. Is that not their job? How much is this costing?
Hell no!
you will see multiple reports the HCQ trials are being 'sabotaged'.
Do not let the MSM gaslight you. There are hundreds of hospitals and thousands of doctors who are using the "COVID_19 cocktail" successfully all across the US and the world. Because they are not part of a randomized double blind peer reviewed study, it is considered anecdotal evidence and you will not hear much (if anything) about it.
Trump quit talking about it because it proved to provoke more resistance to an effective treatment when he spoke about it. Laura can fear monger on the right, just like those on the left.
As long as I'm not breaking any laws it ok, right 6:02?
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