America's top disease control official says the nation needs a greater federal investment in ways the Center for Disease Control and Prevention can forecast and control diseases like the COVID-19 pandemic.
America's top disease control official says the nation needs a greater federal investment in ways the Center for Disease Control and Prevention can forecast and control diseases like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Informatics LifeLine’s Susan Laue interviews Dr. Bryant Karras, Chief Informatics Officer, and Maria Courogen, Branch Director for Disease Containment for the Washington State Department of Health on the subject of contact tracing. In this interview, we discuss the basics of contact tracing, then move on to discuss resource needs, informatics applications, resource tradeoffs, funding, training, and measuring success.
There is evidence COVID-19 can cause return hospital visits with patients worse off.
For reopening schools, an effective method to separate students testing positive for COVID-19 from others is critical.
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