The city will still offer coronavirus exposure alerts for residents who have signed up for the service on their cellphones.
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser launched the “D.C. Contact Trace Force” in April 2020, with a mandate to interview residents who had tested positive for the virus and learn the severity of their symptoms, potential close contacts and places they visited while infectious. Then, through phone calls and home visits, members of the force sought to advise people who might have been exposed to quarantine and seek testing.
The city employed about 65 contact tracers at the start of the pandemic to help stop community spread, but Bowser routedof the city’s contingency cash reserves to the program a month later to bolster staffing. At its peak, the force included 430 contact tracers, said D.C. Health’s director of emergency response Patrick Ashley — a mix of individuals with public health credentials and others who were trained on the job.
Despite the staffing reduction, Ashley said contact tracing remains a core duty of the health department: Epidemiologists and disease investigators have long monitored the spread of hepatitis, HIV and sexually transmitted diseases in the District.
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