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Nebraska will deploy 1,000 contact tracers to help corral coronavirus

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Nebraska will deploy 1,000 contact tracers to help corral coronavirus

• Chris Dunker | Lincoln Journal Star ,  Riley Johnson
• May 3, 2020
• May 3, 2020 Updated Jul 28, 2020
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Amy Marshall demonstrates what a contact tracing call would look like on Friday at the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department.

• EMILY HANEY, Journal Star

A chart shows case investigation and contact tracing at the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department.

• EMILY HANEY, Journal Star

Amy Marshall demonstrates what a contact tracing call would look like on Friday at the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department.

• EMILY HANEY, Journal Star

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Chris Dunker | Lincoln Journal Star ,  Riley Johnson

To bring the coronavirus under heel, particularly as the measures that effectively closed Nebraska are lifted, public health agencies across the state will use a tried and true tool used for decades to help control infectious disease outbreaks.

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