JULIE METRO LOUISVILLE STARTED : WITH JUST 5 CONTACT TRACERS IN MARCH, AND NOW HAS 250 ON STAFF. BUT WITH CASES SURGING, IT’S NOT ENOUGH. HEALTH DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS ARE HOPING TO TRAIN AN ADDITIONAL ...

Through the ebbs and flows of the coronavirus pandemic, the phone calls have kept coming. A small army of so-called contact tracers has worked to stem transmissions by dialing Marylanders infected ...

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, several Fairfax County Health Department members took on the role of contact tracer. That meant looking for any signs of COVID and providing those infected with ...

Back when cases were reaching around 5,000 a day, it was a struggle to try and contact trace, the state health department said. With as much community spread as there was, contact tracers' jobs were ...

SARATOGA COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Saratoga County Department of Public Health is currently seeking people interested in serving as COVID-19 Contact Tracers. The positions are “Contracted” and pay ...

The city's public-private Baltimore Health Corps program managed to employ 275 mostly out-of-work or underemployed Baltimoreans while also improving contact tracing and public health outreach, a new ...

Mallory Bolerjack understood that a career in public health could be thankless at times. It's part of the job, she was told. But Bolerjack never saw this coming. The coronavirus pandemic has put a ...