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Librarians Become CCP Virus Contact Tracers

Librarians Become CCP Virus Contact Tracers
Doctors test hospital staff with flu-like symptoms for COVID-19 in set-up tents to triage possible COVID-19 patients outside before they enter the main emergency department area at St. Barnabas hospital in the Bronx, New York City, on March 24, 2020. Misha Friedman/Getty Images
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Jana De Brauwere works for the San Francisco Library, but since the beginning of April, she’s been a COVID-19 contact tracer, a job she was inspired to choose because it helps her to trace and contain the CCP virus in her community. She also acts as a counselor and connects people to resources that can help them during the quarantine.

Contact tracing involves calling and interviewing people who have tested positive for the CCP virus and identifying and connecting with people who have been in close contact with the infected person, providing them guidance on how to stay well and further limit the spread of the pandemic.

Venus Upadhayaya
Venus Upadhayaya
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Venus Upadhayaya reports on India, China, and the Global South. Her traditional area of expertise is in Indian and South Asian geopolitics. Community media, sustainable development, and leadership remain her other areas of interest.
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