What is a contact tracer?
Testing and Contact Tracing
Alison Buttenheim, PhD MBA, Co-founder & Advisor
Q2: Can I get hired to do contact tracing? Q3: Will the Apple/Google phone tracing technology replace the need for contact tracers? A1: A contact tracer… traces contacts! In an infectious disease outbreak, a contract tracer talks to people who have tested positive for the disease (a “case”) to find out all the people they Read more…
What does the future hold?
Infection and Spread
Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD
Q: What’s going to happen after the current outbreak subsides? Will there be another one? How widespread will it be? A: We wish we knew for sure, but top epidemiologists envision a few possible scenarios. “While these scenarios diverge on key details — how much transmission will decrease over the summer, for instance, and how Read more…
Q2: Can I get hired to do contact tracing? Q3: Will the Apple/Google phone tracing technology replace the need for contact tracers? A1: A contact tracer… traces contacts! In an infectious disease outbreak, a contract tracer talks to people who have tested positive for the disease (a “case”) to find out all the people they Read more…
What does the future hold?
Infection and SpreadJennifer Beam Dowd, PhD
Q: What’s going to happen after the current outbreak subsides? Will there be another one? How widespread will it be? A: We wish we knew for sure, but top epidemiologists envision a few possible scenarios. “While these scenarios diverge on key details — how much transmission will decrease over the summer, for instance, and how Read more…
Q: What’s going to happen after the current outbreak subsides? Will there be another one? How widespread will it be? A: We wish we knew for sure, but top epidemiologists envision a few possible scenarios. “While these scenarios diverge on key details — how much transmission will decrease over the summer, for instance, and how Read more…
