{"id":1033,"date":"2020-04-19T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehealthworkforcehub.org\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2020-04-19T00:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T04:08:00","slug":"reopening-could-require-thousands-more-public-health-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/reopening-could-require-thousands-more-public-health-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Reopening Could Require Thousands More Public Health Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press&#8211;Before stay-at-home orders are lifted, the nation\u2019s public health agencies want to be ready to douse any new sparks of coronavirus infection \u2014 a task they say could require tens of thousands more investigators to call people who test positive, track down their contacts and get them into quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without the extra help, officials insist, states cannot possibly be ready to resume normal everyday activities, and some agencies are so desperate they are considering recruiting librarians and Peace Corps volunteers to join the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/a08896fa5d530df773a5be061e66873d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/a08896fa5d530df773a5be061e66873d (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/a08896fa5d530df773a5be061e66873d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press&#8211;Before stay-at-home orders are lifted, the nation\u2019s public health agencies want to be ready to douse any new sparks of coronavirus infection \u2014 a task they say could require tens of thousands more investigators to call people who test positive, track down their contacts and get them into quarantine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,37,62,22,27],"tags":[253],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-covid-19-the-workforce","category-for-career-seekers","category-employers","category-the-workforce","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}