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San Francisco recruits army of social workers, librarians and investigators to track Covid-19

By Maanvi Singh on May 1, 2020
Contact-tracing is considered crucial to get the US back on track. California is one of the first to take the challenge on. San Francisco has assembled an army of librarians, social workers, attorneys, investigators and medical students to find and warn anyone and everyone who may have been...

Experts Explain How Contact Tracing Will End the Coronavirus Pandemic

By Nina Bai on April 29, 2020
For all the anticipation around new COVID-19 tests, therapeutics and vaccines, public health experts know that the end of the pandemic will depend also on a low-tech, tried-and-true tactic – contact tracing... Read more.

How San Francisco plans to trace every coronavirus case and contact

By James Temple on April 8, 2020
Assembling a team to identity and isolate infections could be a crucial step in getting the city back to work.

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