NASA COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Tracking (CTT) Application

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Overview

The NASA Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer and the Office of the Chief Information Officer have developed a contact tracing application to help control the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19). NASA Contact Tracing is used to identify employees who may have been in contact with a COVID-19 case at a NASA installation. Trained NASA Clinic employees interview the index case to trace back who they may have had recent contact with while at work. Subsequently, people who may have been exposed are contacted, interviewed about their symptomatic status, and encouraged to self-quarantine to prevent further spread. Of those contacts tested, if there is a new confirmed case of the virus, the process of contact tracing continues. Based on the recommendations established by the Presidents Guidelines for Opening Up America Again, and for the protection of NASA employees and mission, NASA clinics are using this central tracking tool to manage contact tracin