Milken Institute SPH Tool Helps Public Health Officials Estimate Need for COVID-19 Contact Tracing

GW Today - A novel workforce tool created by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health estimates that the nation will need to employ a total of 184,000 COVID-19 contact tracers to help society safely reopen and limit the size of future waves of the virus.

The Contact Tracing Workforce Estimator, created by a team at the Milken Institute-based  Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity, uses the number of COVID-19 cases, estimated number of contacts per infected person and other information to help state and local health departments determine the number of staff needed to identify and trace people who have been in contact with new cases of COVID-19. Read full press release.