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Linda Niccolai1, Tyler Shelby1, Brian Weeks1
1Linda Niccolai and James Meek are with the Yale School of Public Health and the Connecticut Emerging Infections Program at Yale, New Haven, CT. Tyler Shelby, Justin Goodwin, and Rachel Hennein are with Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Christopher Schenck is with Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Brian Weeks, Jennifer Vazquez, and Maritza Bond are with New Haven Health Department, New Haven, CT. Meghan Rossini and Dorothyann van Rhijn are with Yale Health at Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Abstract:
Contact tracing was one of the core public health strategies implemented during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this essay, we describe the rapid establishment of a volunteer contact tracing program in New Haven, Connecticut. We describe successes of the program and challenges that were faced. Going forward, contact tracing efforts can best be supported by increased funding to state and local health departments for a stable workforce and use of evidence-based technological innovations.
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