Kentucky's Contact Tracing Director On Program's Challenges, Successes
Credit Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons Kentucky spent $78 million of CARES Act funding to set up a contact tracing program to track the spread of the coronavirus. Now, some Republicans in the Kentucky legislature are unsatisfied with the program’s results and are calling for it to be defunded. Reporter Jared Bennett of the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting spoke to Mark Carter, the head of Kentucky’s contact tracing program, to learn more about contact tracing and the challenges facing the system. Carter, formerly CEO of Passport Health Care, was appointed by Gov. Andy Beshea...
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