Contact tracers are disease detectives. Their job is to track down everybody an infected person might've come into contact with so they can be isolated and stop #coronavirus spreading further. #abc730 @Chris_Gillett_ #COVID19Aus #ContactTracers
“We feel like we are preparing for battle. How do you track a virus you can’t see?” Dr Annaliese van Dieman, contact tracer. #abc730 #coronavirusaustralia #COVID19Aus
“It is a significant piece of detective work to ascertain all of those places to find out where the patient might have acquired the illness, but also who they might have exposed or given the illness to.” Dr Annaliese van Dieman, contact tracer. #abc730 #coronavirusaus #COVID19Aus
“The first step is an interview. They go all the way back, 14 days to where the patient may have acquired the disease and then they go forward from when the person became sick to look at all of the places they may have been.” Dr Annaliese van Dieman, contact tracer. #abc730
“No one really knows what we do because we work in the background. We absolutely stop hundreds of thousands of cases of different diseases each year.” Nectaria Tzimourtas, contact tracer. #abc730 #coronavirusaustralia #COVID19Aus
“It’s important to understand this virus hasn’t changed just because we’ve got lower cases than we had two or three weeks ago – there still is no vaccine at this point in time, there still is no treatment.” Dr Annaliese van Dieman, contact tracer. #abc730 #coronavirus #COVID19Aus
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.