Any evidence of contact tracing being done in your state?

There is, in NY. I was mandated by my job to take the 5 hour training (given by a company owned by Bloomberg). Whether or not people are open to communicating with contract tracers, that’s another story. I think many are leery of giving personal information to the government – information such as “where were you and who were you with.”

North Carolina is contact tracing.

CT has a voluntary phone tracing system in place, download the app and within a certain proximity of another app user who has tested positive an alarm is issued.

I don’t know of other measures, there may well be, but I just don’t know.

“Evidence”?

I have a number of friends and public health colleagues who have been employed as contact tracers (jobs have frequently been posted from the DOH to public health programs at state universities). I have also seen job postings in other states for laypeople to be trained as contact tracers.

You can also get a certificate through coursera and other online platforms to learn to be contact tracers. There are probably hundreds, if not thousands, of contact tracer jobs throughout the country. Some Departments of Health prefer those with public health backgrounds and others do not.

I have been highly impressed with the FL DOH’s networking with public health trainees and instructors/professors to find contact tracers.

@Cupcake Thank you! I would be interested in being a contact tracer part time as long as I can do it from home. I thought about it when covid first started, but then I dropped the idea. Maybe I should look into it again.

@JLeslie If I come across anything, I will let you know. At least early on, FL contact tracers stayed in hotels across the state and reported to Departments of Health or other site for work. It would make sense, though, to decentralize and allow people to work remotely. Perhaps you could even work for another state, as long as the job was remote.

@JLeslie: Here’s the link for the training. I took it for free, because my job paid for it through a contract. I think it might be $75 or something like that if you have to pay. I’m not sure.

https://www.coursera.org/

Thanks.

At the hair cutter and at a restaurant I had to write my name and phone number in a notebook and sign that I was not having symptoms.
Also NY has an app but I did not download it.