058 - Contact Tracing 101: The Public Health Strategy That Could Help Control COVID-19 and Speed Up Reopening

Published: April 29, 2020, noon

It might be too late to halt transmission of COVID-19 but contract tracing could help bring the outbreak under control. Dr. Emily Gurley and PhD candidate Brooke Jarrett break down contact tracing and what it would take to get “an army” off the ground in US cities.

Gurley and Jarrett also helped develop a free course on contact tracing which will soon be available from Johns Hopkins on the Coursera platform: www.coursera.org/jhu