Public health leaders are calling for the U.S. to get ready for massive contact tracing efforts to fight the coronavirus. Here's your quick guide to what contact tracing is, how it works, and how it could help 👇
Here's a guide to the basics of the process and how it could help society restart after the current wave of coronavirus cases.Contact tracing is a process designed to halt the chain of transmission of an infectious pathogen — like the coronavirus — and slow community spread.
It's not perfect — a tracer might not be able to reach all the contacts, and those contacts might not all follow the guidance, says, senior adviser for COVID-19 to the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists."But even the leaky quarantine is effective," he says."If you get 85% of contacts to self-quarantine for 14 days, you're going to do a lot in the community to decrease transmission.
For a hair stylist who tests positive, that might involve pulling up a list of everyone who had hair appointments while that stylist was at work, as was the case with Berger. But it can get much more complicated than that. One COVID-19 patienthow he had to reach out to at least a dozen contacts after he attended a conference before everything shut down. It can mean going through your social media posts, your emails or your calendar, trying to piece together who you were close to.
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