UW News

Sarah Manchanda


May 29, 2020

UW launches online training for contact tracing to help fight COVID-19

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As businesses and public spaces reopen across the nation, the old-school public health detective work known as contact tracing is becoming a major component of the battle to contain the novel coronavirus that causes the deadly COVID-19 disease. It’s an investigative strategy long used for finding and informing people exposed to contagious diseases, such as…