Local nurse practitioner and public health educator Karen Wolf talks to Sam about how the history of contact tracing & quarantine relate to our current moment. Karen answers questions like:

-Are local universities Susquehanna and Bucknell really testing students' poop for COVID viral load?

-How does government-led contact tracing work?

-How has the stigma of disease led the USA to develop a system of health privacy?

-What happens when you get a call from the Department of Health telling you and your family to quarantine for 14 days.

 

SHOW NOTES: 

**UPDATE:  the COVID Alert PA contact tracing app is now available**

PA Department of Health

• Quarantine and Isolation of Close Contacts 
• Contact Tracing FAQ 
• Sign up to be a Contact Tracer
• School Guidelines 

PA Department of Education

• School Closure Guidelines in the event of cases

Science topics referenced

• Massachusetts General Hospital COVID Symptom Study app -- online monitoring/self-reporting by general population, not just those who have been exposed or diagnosed
• The Marshall Project -- disparate impacts of COVID-19 by race
• Herd Immunity -- the implications and global context explained by Popular Science or a clinical news source 
• Testing for success -- Atul Gowande article in the New Yorker
• Testing for COVID in wastewater -- locally, nationally, and globally
• Long term impacts of COVID-19 whether for "long haulers" or even for mild and asymptomatic cases

Bucknell University COVID response assessment/updates by Prof. Ken Field, head of the Biology Department (the discussion of this wound up getting edited out but this was also referenced in the early September WKOK Sunrise Show discussion)

• Video 1
• Video 2 -- Week 3
• Video 3 -- Week 5

 

Image Courtesy of Erie County Historical Society

 

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