OC Agencies Partner to Train Contact Tracers in Fight Against COVID-19

Nurse Jennifer Morgan, right, checks in via phone with a patient self-quarantined at home who had some risk of exposure to COVID-19 as Erika Feutz observes at a public health facility used for contact tracing in Seattle, Wash., on Feb.13, 2020. Elaine Thompson/AP

A partnership of Orange County, California, health care agencies has created an online contact tracing workshop in an effort to boost the ranks of personnel available to combat the spread of COVID-19 in the county.

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) Program in Public Health has joined with the Orange County Health Care Agency (OCHCA) and the Orange County Health Equity COVID-19 Community-Academic Partnership to provide the workshop, which focuses on “health equity” in its approach.