ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County’s public health officials are asking for additional funding to hire more coronavirus contact tracers to help trace the respiratory illness.Dr.
Raul Pino with the Florida Department of Health in Orange County submitted a proposal asking for $538,636 from the county’s CARES Act funding.
The federal funds would help create 20 new contact tracing positions to help the county work toward eliminating COVID-19 from its communities.Contact tracers are often utilized as a public health defense against disease or as a virus control measure, according to the FDOH.
These public health workers communicate with patients to develop a list of people they have been in contact with and notify them of the exposure.