{"id":15720,"date":"2020-04-10T08:56:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15720"},"modified":"2020-04-10T08:56:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:56:47","slug":"cdc-director-very-aggressive-contact-tracing-needed-for-u-s-to-return-to-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15720","title":{"rendered":"CDC Director: &#8216;Very Aggressive&#8217; Contact Tracing Needed For U.S. To Return To Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Selena Simmons-Duffin\u00a0 and\u00a0Rob Stein for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the question on everyone&#8217;s minds: What will it take for us to come out of this period of extreme social distancing and return to some semblance of normal life?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been working on a plan to allow the U.S. to safely begin to scale back those policies. CDC Director Robert Redfield spoke with NPR on Thursday, saying that the plan relies on not only ramped-up testing but &#8220;very aggressive&#8221; contact tracing of those who do test positive for the coronavirus, and a major scale-up of personnel to do the necessary work.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/04\/10\/831200054\/cdc-director-very-aggressive-contact-tracing-needed-for-u-s-to-return-to-normal\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Selena Simmons-Duffin\u00a0 and\u00a0Rob Stein for NPR) It&#8217;s the question on everyone&#8217;s minds: What will it take for us to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-emerging-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15721,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720\/revisions\/15721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}