{"id":7997,"date":"2020-07-07T17:39:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7997"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:39:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:39:53","slug":"contact-tracing-for-native-americans-in-rural-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/07\/contact-tracing-for-native-americans-in-rural-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact Tracing for Native Americans in Rural Arizona."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"10\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Close et al. report the development of an aggressive, integrated early-response plan that relie<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0heavily on contact tracing to limit the spread of COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0rural eastern Arizonan<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0community of about 18,000 Native Americans. Since the inception of the staff-intensive program, more than<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">600 cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed on the reservation with a case fatality of 1.1%, which is less than half\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reported for the rest of the state of Arizona.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Close et al. (July 2, 2020). Contact Tracing for Native Americans in Rural Arizona. The New England Journal of Medicine.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1056\/NEJMc2023540<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close et al. report the development of an aggressive, integrated early-response plan that relies\u00a0heavily on contact tracing to limit the spread of COVID-19\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0rural eastern Arizonan\u00a0community of about 18,000 Native Americans. Since the inception of the staff-intensive program, more than\u00a01,600 cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed on the reservation with a case fatality of 1.1%, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/07\/contact-tracing-for-native-americans-in-rural-arizona\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-7997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7998,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997\/revisions\/7998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7997"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}