Johns Hopkins University has launched a free course to train contact tracers
Johns Hopkins University
has launched a free course to train contact tracers. Developed by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the course opened on May 11. It is designed to train individuals in the basic principles of contact tracing, one of the core elements of a public health strategy regarded as crucial for containing the spread of Covid-19 as states begin to relax their former restrictions.
Among the course’s first students are individuals seeking to become contact tracers in New York, part of a large-scale initiative announced by Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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