DHS Tries To Hire Large Team Of Contact Tracers

The state is offering a pay rate of 20 dollars-an-hour as it tries to hire a team of contact tracers.  The Wisconsin Department of Health Services plans to bring up to one thousand onboard.  Contact tracing involves interviewing every confirmed coronavirus patient and notifying everyone who has been in close contact with them that they need to self-quarantine for 14 days.  The D-H-S has already trained nearly 400 state employees who have been reassigned from their normal work duties in other departments.