The state of US contact tracing: Is it working?
Posted on AllSides October 9th, 2020
From The Left
FACT CHECK
The White House’s struggle to get ahead of the coronavirus outbreak within its walls reflects a problem public health officials have felt for months as they’ve tried to help their communities fight the pandemic: The U.S. is not contact tracing as well as it could be.
Contact tracing, the practice of informing people who have been exposed to an infected person, is a key component of the test-trace-isolate strategy to keep case counts low.
There’s no national contact-tracing system in the U.S. The patchwork effort across the country, while...