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Workforce increase reinforces Alaska virus contact tracing
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Jan 19, 2021 at 9:58 am EDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Alaska’s coronavirus contact tracing effort is rebounding after several months of hiring and several weeks of decreased daily cases, officials said.
State officials said great improvements have been made since November, when the contact tracing corps was overwhelmed and people testing positive were asked to reach out on their own to those they may have infected, Anchorage Daily News reported Monday.
Tim Struna, chief of Public Health Nursing for the Alaska Division of Public Health, said contact tracers can now investigate reports within a day after receiving notice of new virus infections.
The Kodiak City Council has authorized a $35,000 economic analysis for expanding the city limits through annexation.
Research for the study will be led by Katie Cueva, an assistant professor of health policy with the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage.Â
The study was authorized at a city council meeting on Thursday. Recent discussions about annexation have focused on extending the cityâs limits northward to include Kodiak Island Borough Service District Number 1, undeveloped city property and the city wastewater treatment plant.Â
The city is also talking about annexing areas southward, stretching from the cityâs southern border to Boy Scout Lake and the U.S. Coast Guard Lake Louise housing development.Â
Print article Back in November, with COVID-19 cases surging and the state’s contact tracing corps overwhelmed, officials implored people testing positive to reach out on their own to the people they might have infected. But, now Alaska’s contact tracing effort is rebounding after several months of hiring and several weeks of decreased daily cases. At the moment, once contact tracers are notified of the new positive, they’ll reach out within the day, said
Tim Struna, who heads up the section of public health nursing for Alaska.
It takes on average statewide around three days between the time someone might pull into a drive-through testing site and get their nose swabbed to when a contact tracer calls them.
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