Here's what it's like to work with people who test positive to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Contact tracing is one of the most-needed jobs in America right now. "I average 20-30 cases that I contact a day. It adds up," said Jade Murray, right, who is pictured with Jessica Jaramillo.
Jessica Jaramillo, 41, is a librarian and San Francisco Public Library district manager who became a contact tracer in service of the city’s response to COVID-19. As a municipal employee, she can be assigned as a disaster service worker whenever the mayor declares aI received an email saying that I was identified as a person who had skills that they were looking for to do contact tracing.
We’re using a couple of different software [programs], one to make the phone calls via the computer and another one that is secured and in accord with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, which is where all the information is held. We get assigned people through that software. Sometimes that’s challenging because you can see the push and pull, and in those cases you just do your best to impress upon someone the importance [of staying home], not just for the community, but for their families, for themselves ― a “we’re all in this together” kind of thing.You should be ready to be in a fast-paced environment, be ready to do things on the fly.
employees. Once the nurse has taken the initial statement from the individual who tested positive for COVID-19 and gathered all of their contacts, it’s then passed to us contact tracers to contact them for the next 14 days, or 14 days from their exposure.
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