California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said a plan is in place to deploy 20,000 "disease detectives" across the state to track, isolate, and perhaps quarantine residents exposed to COVID-19, KPIX-TV reported.

What are the details?
Newsom said at a Tuesday press briefing that UCLA and UC San Francisco are providing a "virtual academy" to recruit and train individuals to build on the nearly 3,000 "disease detectives" already tracking and tracing people who've come in contact with residents who are COVID-19 positive, the station said.
The governor said 23 counties are presently tracking and tracing and keeping records on possible COVID-19 exposures and determining who should be isolated and/or quarantined, KPIX reported.

"This tracing that's happening includes a workforce of about 3,000 people today — 2,845 individuals to be exact — primarily conducted at the local level," Newsom said, according to the station, and that the online training academy is aiming to equip "upwards to 3,000 people a week to go through two phases ... 10,000 being our first-phase goal, 20,000 our second-phase goal. So on the high end getting about 20,000 people into this workforce … building off the existing base of 3,000."

'Ultimately, it's customer service'
In northern California recruits are redeployed civil servants and volunteers who will serve six- to 12-month-long stints that require skills ranging from "data entry and psychology to project management and crisis intervention," the Mercury News reported.
"Ultimately, it's customer service," Contra Costa County Public Health Director Daniel Peddycord told the paper. "We need people with critical thinking skills and empathy."
Bay Area health officers told the Mercury News that "disease detectives" are already catching silent infections.

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