The state is winding down its increasingly futile attempts to investigate positive COVID cases and alert those who’ve been exposed, which means Tennesseans are pretty much on their own with contact tracing at this point.
Tennessee Forced To Change Tactics With Contact Tracing Overwhelmed
The flood of new coronavirus cases in Tennessee has swamped contact tracing efforts. Now health officials are considering new tactics to keep up.
Investigation: Tennessee Outsourced Hundreds Of Contact Tracers But Releases Little Data On Results
Tennessee has outsourced most of its contact tracing to a medical billing company with no experience in epidemiology. And despite spending tens of millions of dollars on the effort, the state has published very little evidence to show how the company is doing.
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