Here and Now
Contact Tracing Efforts Ramp Up
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Many public health depts struggle with time-intensive, budget-stretching tracing process
As Wisconsin begins to open back up, contact tracing and aggressive testing of COVID-19 will be the state’s best line of defense against the continued spread of the disease. Contact tracing follows where an infected person has been and who else they may have infected, but it requires extensive time and resources that many local public health departments severely lack.
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Here and Now is a local public television program presented by PBS Wisconsin
Here and Now
Contact Tracing Efforts Ramp Up
Clip: Season 1800 Episode 1848 | 2m 52sVideo has Closed Captions
As Wisconsin begins to open back up, contact tracing and aggressive testing of COVID-19 will be the state’s best line of defense against the continued spread of the disease. Contact tracing follows where an infected person has been and who else they may have infected, but it requires extensive time and resources that many local public health departments severely lack.
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