Spokane Standard

Community Colleges of Spokane are beginning new courses that will help local businesses with contract tracing strategies. 

"The class is listed on the CCS web portal as "Contact Tracing," but rather than teaching how to specifically contact trace, the four-hour class offers strategies and resources to help participants create an internal plan that can keep their internal and external customers safe," KREM reported. 

Christ Munoz, a firefighter in the city, will be teaching the Zoom class. 

"If you had one to two individuals that are affected, a good plan could help mitigate that expansion of that spread of the virus," Munoz told KREM. "So maybe you only have one to two people who end up getting sick or exposed, instead of that evolving into now you've got 10, 14, 20 people that are now sick, and that has a significant impact on these businesses and organizations...."We'll give them examples as to what the fire department has done here locally to mitigate some of these risks, and just getting some of those ideas and things that have worked...Anyone taking the class can maybe find out if that's going to work for their organization and they can apply that if they think that's something that's necessary."