What Happened To Contact Tracing with Annie Thomas-Landrum | Podcast in Place #69
In November 2020, we interviewed Annie Thomas-Landrum about her work as the project manager for the UAA Surge Contact Tracing Team. At the time, before vaccines were widely available, contact tracing was a vital tool in slowing the spread of Covid-19.
But as time went on, vaccines became available and new variants caused case counts to skyrocket, we heard less and less about contact tracing.
So in this episode, ATMI producer Edison Wallace-Moyer speaks with Annie again. She and her contact tracing team continued working through March 2022. Since then she has gone on to a position as the Associate Director of Health Workforce for the Alaska Area Health Education Centers.
In their conversation, Annie talks about what happened with contact tracing efforts throughout the course of the pandemic, how Covid has changed the medical profession, and how we will still be feeling the effects of the pandemic for a while.
They spoke on May 19, 2023.
Hosted by Forrest Rodgers.
Music by Devin Shreckengost and Kendrick Whiteman.
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Bonus!
In this extended excerpt, Annie talks about her organization Managing Me Enterprises and its Covid-19 Resiliency Recovery program.
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RESOURCES FOR YOUTH DURING COVID-19
Free vaccines, boosters and flu shots in Anchorage: anchoragecovidvaccine.org
Center for Disease Control and Prevention: cdc.gov/coronavirus
Alaska Suicide Prevention and someone to talk to line: carelinealaska.com
Suicide and Crisis Line: 988
suicidepreventionlifeline.org
1-800-273-8255
National Domestic Violence Hotline thehotline.org: 1-800-799-7233 and TTY 1-800-787-3224 or text LOVEIS to 22522
alaska211.org or Help Me Grow Alaska 1-833-464-2527 for help connecting to resources and services or for help knowing where to start.
These resources provided in collaboration with the State of Alaska, Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Behavioral Health.
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