Did you get a call from a COVID contact tracer?
Health officials depended on contact tracing to help reduce the spread of COVID. The idea was if you tested positive, you’d get a call from a health worker asking who you’ve been around so they can figure out if those contacts could spread COVID too.
The Arizona Department of Health Services says it’s reducing contact tracing for the entire population and concentrating on congregate living—places like nursing homes and homeless shelters where populations are most vulnerable and close quarters make it especially easy for the virus to spread. “The predominant impetus for contact tracing at the current time is our school-based cases and our congregate living cases. Both of those continue to be very high risk situations. And we continue to do contact tracing in them.”
Doctor Cullen says, “That means we would have had one thousand cases to investigate and two to three thousand contacts. That was not happening then. So to be frank, while we say we are still conducting contact tracing. In the midst of those very high numbers, people were not being contacted.”
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