As Contact Tracing Efforts Ramp Up, So Do Training Courses For Those Seeking Jobs In ...
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CHICAGO (CBS) — It’s a common buzzword these days, and a hot new career: contact tracing. Mayor Lori Lightfoot just announced an effort to create 600 new jobs in poor Black and Latinx communities through a $56 million expansion of contact tracing in Chicago. Some 240,000 people signed up for a free online contact tracing training course from Johns Hopkins University. CBS 2 Morning Insider Tim McNicholas is working to see what it’s all about, so he took the course as well. It’s a five-hour course, so he’s been doing it in a few chunks at a time, not all at once. First, you find the course on coursera.org, create a free account, and...