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Free - COVID-19 Contact Tracing Course Offered by John Hopkins University ($76, Waived 100%) @ Coursera

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Starting today, anyone can take the five-hour course on Coursera. It’s a beginner-level class with flexible deadlines, and you get a certificate at the end of it. It will focus on the principles of the public health strategy that many consider critical for slowing the spread of COVID-19. The course is in English, with subtitles in English, Spanish and Portuguese (Brazilian).

Here’s the course description:

The COVID-19 crisis has created an unprecedented need for contact tracing across the country, requiring thousands of people to learn key skills quickly. The job qualifications for contact tracing positions differ throughout the country and the world, with some new positions open to individuals with a high school diploma or equivalent.

In this introductory course, students will learn about the science of SARS-CoV-2, including the infectious period, the clinical presentation of COVID-19, and the evidence for how SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted from person-to-person and why contact tracing can be such an effective public health intervention. Students will learn about how contact tracing is done, including how to build rapport with cases, identify their contacts, and support both cases and their contacts to stop transmission in their communities. The course will also cover several important ethical considerations around contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine. Finally, the course will identify some of the most common barriers to contact tracing efforts — along with strategies to overcome them.

The instructor for the course is Emily Gurley, PhD, MPH, an associate scientist in the department of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. If you’d like to learn more about what the class covers, here is the syllabus.

“Even if you stop one or two new infections, you’re preventing many new cases down the line,” Gurley said in a statement.

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  • Awesome. Way to go.

  • +13

    Does it explain 5g to those that are in the know

    • -3

      Apparently some have drawn correlation to every modern pandemic occurring with the introduction of new radio wave technology. They also claim a side effect of the EMFs is virus like symptoms.

    • Surely those that are already in the know already know and don't need to have it explained… ;-)

  • +1

    Username stacks up

  • Not a future-proof line of work

    • I wouldn't be too sure. My suspicion is that you will need this qualification if you wish to have a career as a government snitch and 'distance enforcement officer' for the encroaching waves 2,3,4,5 and on ad on. Once you have this course under your belt you can enhance your career goals by completing a post-graduate degree in 'mask wearing and enforcement' and even a PhD in 'social distancing'. And how will they fund this new industry of snitches and brownshirts? Look up HR6666 (I kid you not, go to the U.S. congress site (oR just google) and look it up, at this stage they are just paying with us, :) )

      And in Italy:

      https://www.rt.com/news/489712-italy-civic-assistance-covid1…

      • And all this time I thought OzB was just a site for sourcing cheap toilet paper deals…

        • I guess you could print out copies of HR6666 and use that. :P

      • Execute Order 6666

    • might be a few years worth of work if you want to travel to the US, if they are bothering with tracing

    • +4

      I dont think Influenza or Corona-viruses are going away anytime soon? They have literally been around since the beginning of time.

  • +1

    Number of times I hear newsreaders and reporters say John.
    They have no excuse they're professionals.
    Random posters on the internet can be forgiven.

    • Yep… lived in Baltimore City for 6 years. Such a grating sound to hear “John Hopkins”. Editorial of news media has deteriorated since social media and click bait. This will only get worse, also being encouraged by Trump deliberately pushing “fake news”.

  • -7

    Instead of lockdown for several weeks and at the end no more coronas, we had some measures and then everything to go back to so so normal. Well, I am not going overseas to spend 2 weeks in quarantine, then come back to Australia for another 2 weeks of quarantine. Good luck with tourists doing that.

    So now we have COVID-19 Contact Tracing course. Well… I have my reservations about that. If people were disciplined, this virus would already be history, but as it is, it is here to stay.

    It's about the economy… Well, I can't see how stopping the world for 2 months is worse then slowing it down, then keeping it slow for who knows how long.

    I am off to my hairdresser. I need that haircut.

  • +5

    I smoked pot with Johnny Hopkins

    • +2

      It was Johnny Hopkins and Sloan Kettering, and they were blazing that sh!t up.

  • -1

    What a load of rubbish.

  • -6

    The problem with this kind of deal is the information changes so rapidly that it’s likely already out of date. Change my mind.

    • +13

      If you know nothing, nothing you know is out of date.

    • +2

      I've seen some really silly reasons for a negative vote, but this one is definitely up there.

  • +2

    Surely contact tracing all viruses is a similar art !
    Therefore a skill in readiness for next happening after the current pandemic.
    South Korean’s are the best country in the world with this art .

  • +9

    Do we get student email?

  • -1

    I like these courses but some are full of propaganda.

    THe aus gov one docks u points if you say masks help reduce infection for general public.

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