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NPR had a good piece where they tried to determine what the contact tracing needs were and where various states are:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shot...-we-learne

It is notable that California has stated its goal is to have 10,000 contact tracers:

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/22/govern...-19-surge/


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Establishing a contact tracing workforce by surveying counties on their capacity; developing a statewide training academy; and training 10,000 public health connectors to conduct contact tracing.

From the NPR piece, the current staffing level is unknown for California, but based on their estimates are that with the 10,000 contact tracers the state will have 25 tracers/100,000 of the population, which is close but short of the target of having 30/100,000, which comes from this position paper by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (of course, such organizations might be expected to maximize the number of their members needed, so take it with a grain of salt).

https://www.naccho.org/uploads/full-widt...6-2020.pdf

We estimate that in non-emergency situations, we need 15 professionals per 100,000 population, including epidemiologists,disease investigation specialists, public health nurses, community health workers, and others typically involved in contact tracing activities.Given the magnitude of COVID-19, the need to quickly complete contact tracing (within hours versus days for other communicable diseases), and the demand for these services across all areas of the country at once, we estimate that twice as many professionals will be needed. 30 professionalsper 100,000 population equates to a nationwide force of 98,460 workers. While the estimate is based on a strict per capita basis, it is critical that these individuals be distributed across health departments in a more equitable fashion, with a base+ per capita formula so that health departments that serve smaller populations still have access to the surge capacity they need to do this important work

BC

[BostonCard]

NPR had a good piece where they tried to determine what the contact tracing needs were and where various states are:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shot...-we-learne

It is notable that California has stated its goal is to have 10,000 contact tracers:

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/22/govern...-19-surge/


[*]

Establishing a contact tracing workforce by surveying counties on their capacity; developing a statewide training academy; and training 10,000 public health connectors to conduct contact tracing.

From the NPR piece, the current staffing level is unknown for California, but based on their estimates are that with the 10,000 contact tracers the state will have 25 tracers/100,000 of the population, which is close but short of the target of having 30/100,000, which comes from this position paper by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (of course, such organizations might be expected to maximize the number of their members needed, so take it with a grain of salt).

https://www.naccho.org/uploads/full-widt...6-2020.pdf

We estimate that in non-emergency situations, we need 15 professionals per 100,000 population, including epidemiologists,disease investigation specialists, public health nurses, community health workers, and others typically involved in contact tracing activities.Given the magnitude of COVID-19, the need to quickly complete contact tracing (within hours versus days for other communicable diseases), and the demand for these services across all areas of the country at once, we estimate that twice as many professionals will be needed. 30 professionalsper 100,000 population equates to a nationwide force of 98,460 workers. While the estimate is based on a strict per capita basis, it is critical that these individuals be distributed across health departments in a more equitable fashion, with a base+ per capita formula so that health departments that serve smaller populations still have access to the surge capacity they need to do this important work

BC