{"id":114130,"date":"2020-10-05T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T15:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=114130"},"modified":"2020-10-14T21:04:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T01:04:19","slug":"stopping-the-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/stopping-the-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping the Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the call for volunteer tracers went out to UCF students over the summer, Anthony DePaz knew he wanted to be involved. In the past year, someone very close to him had become ill from the virus, and he wanted to help others who had been affected by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Since the spring, UCF Student Health Services<\/a> has worked with the Florida Department of Health in Orange County to conduct contact tracing in COVID-19 cases with links to the campus community.<\/p>\n

It soon became clear there was a need for more contact tracing. Over the summer, a call went out to UCF undergrad students in health-related programs inviting them to become registered volunteer contact tracers.<\/p>\n

More than 700 students applied for the unpaid positions, says Jascinth Lindo, associate professor of nursing<\/a> who helped coordinate the effort to recruit UCF student volunteers. \u201cWe were not surprised that so many Knights were interested in helping their fellow Knights during this challenging time.\u201d<\/p>\n