Health Dept. Director: ‘We wish they would call us back’
Contact tracers still calling despite decrease in response from public
Shelby County Health Department COVID-19 contact tracing team members Linda Anne (bottom) and Greg Dixon (top) discuss a case last September. The health department is having a difficult time this fall getting the public to respond to them to do contact tracing. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
“People don’t understand why they are being asked to name people. They don’t understand the whole role of contact tracing,” said Dr. Rebecca Wurtz, director of Public Health Administration and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
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Jane Roberts
Longtime journalist Jane Roberts is a Minnesotan by birth and a Memphian by choice. She's lived and reported in the city more than two decades. She covers business news and features for The Daily Memphian.
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