Contact Tracing Playbook
  • Contact Tracing Playbook
  • What is contact tracing
    • Three core steps
    • Who is responsible
    • Manual vs. digital
    • Asymptomatic cases
    • Things to consider
  • Contact tracing programs
    • Federal
    • States
    • City / County
  • How to do contact tracing
    • Workforce expansion
    • Laboratory testing
    • Isolation and quarantine
    • Monitoring and evaluation
    • Data management
      • Legal & data sharing frameworks
      • Negotiating data rights with vendors
    • Technology enablement
    • Review of vendors
  • Other resources
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  1. Contact tracing programs

Federal

The US is considering how to support contact tracing nationally

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Last updated 5 years ago

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In on 5/27/2020, bipartisan health experts recommended congress spend $12b to hire 180,000 federal contract tracing workers over next 18 months. The Center for Disease Control has 500 staff to help state & local health departments and will allocate 650 more positions to do so.

a letter to congress
States