The need for mental health resources among COVID-19 contact tracers
By Stephanie KimThe need for mental health resources among COVID-19 contact tracers
By Stephanie Kim
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Contact tracers around Illinois have interviewed hundreds of thousands of people who tested positive for the virus and their close contacts. But it’s been a challenge reaching everyone, and the job itself has taken an emotional and psychological toll on workers.
Reset checks in with a contact tracer and an organization that’s providing mental health training to workers.
GUESTS: Cherie Hunter, Cook County health department contact tracer and investigator
Kimberly Knake, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Metro Suburban