Experts with Johns Hopkins offer free online 'contract tracing' course

By Ali Gostanian

For weeks now we've been hearing from health officials saying that contact tracing is a powerful tool to limit the spread of COVID-19 and now thanks to the doctors at John's Hopkins you can learn how to do it for free. 

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, launched a free course aimed at training an army of contact tracers on Monday

Officials with the Johns Hopkins school of public health say the new online course will take approximately six hours to complete, will teach participants about the science behind the virus and how contact tracing is done. It is a requirement for the thousands of contact tracers being hired by New York. 

It's estimated that the United States will need at least 100,000 contact tracers to slow the spread of COVID-19, according to a study by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

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