Study shows student-based contact-tracing prevented COVID-19 exposures, infections for university students and staff

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Study shows student-based contact-tracing prevented COVID-19 exposures, infections for university students and staff

Epidemiologists at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) developed and implemented a novel, student-driven, contact-tracing program that reduced COVID-19 exposures and infections on the campus during the 2020-2021 school year. Results from the program, which deployed UIC students to conduct both COVID-19 case investigations and contact tracing among non-clinical campus members, were published today in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) .

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