San Francisco recruits army of librarians, social workers and investigators to track Covid-19
by Maanvi Singh in Oakland from Science | The Guardian on (#52X9H)
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 exposed to Covid-19.
Large-scale tracing efforts have been proven to work in other countries, including South Korea and Germany, and are considered crucial to get the United States economy back on track. But tracing efforts in a nation as large and diverse as the US come with unique challenges, and California, the country's most populous state, is one of the first to start to take those challenges on.
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