Georgia’s Top Public Health Official: ‘If We Have Lost The Public’s Trust, I Hope That We Gain It Back’

For weeks, Dr. Kathleen Toomey, the state’s top public health official, has promoted her plan to hire an army of disease detectives, called contact tracers, to track down the contacts of everyone in Georgia who tests positive for COVID-19.

This week, the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health sat down with health reporter Sam Whitehead, host of “Did You Wash Your Hands?”,  to explain her agency’s progress in setting up the contact tracing program.

Toomey also addressed recent errors on her agency’s data website tracking COVID-19 data for the state.