Washington State Builds Coronavirus Contact Tracing 'Fire Brigade'
Public health experts say finding and isolating coronavirus patients will be key to re-opening public life. That's going to take a lot of work.
If life is going to return to anything like normal in the next few months, experts say we're going to need a lot more "contact tracers."
Those are the public health workers who get in touch with someone who's tested positive for a disease, to find out who else he or she might have been in contact with. It's a long-standing practice for illnesses such as tuberculosis and AIDS, and now, as states re-open, it'll be a
