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Contact Tracer Positions

"Then you have to consider every individual and the care they need

and the wraparound services required to help them get through the

isolation," said Lori Tremmel Freeman, CEO of the National
Association of County and City Health Officials, an advocacy group

that supports nearly 3,000 local health departments.

"A lot people in vulnerable communities don't have very many resources
— they can't isolate because they need their jobs," Freeman said,"

and maybe they feel threatened that their employment will end or they
can't isolate because they live in multifamily house and they will infect

everyone else in the house."

Who's hiring?

Among the initiatives to hire contact tracers now underway:
• In California, Governor Gavin Newsom has said he wants 10,000

contact tracers investigating webs of transmission throughout the state.

According to the Centers for Disease Controlled and Prevention, "Local
health departments have been doing contact tracing since the beginning

of time and are certainly well-versed and experienced at it," she said.
"But when you're talking about having to scale the response based on the

threat in your community, there must be a surge in the workforce to
accommodate what's going on with this disease."

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