Cook County to spend $41 million on COVID-19 contact tracing, but won’t be fully staffed until fall – Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Department of Public Health, which serves about 2.7 million city residents, announced in late May its own plans to bring on 600 additional contact tracers by mid-September. That’s a $56 million effort.

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