COVID Surge Wrecks Contact Tracing Efforts

Crystal Watson, DrPH,  elderly scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security; aide teacher, Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Carolyn Cannuscio, ScD, associate teacher of family members medication and also neighborhood wellness, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Erin Beard agent, Virginia Department of Health.

The COVID Tracking Project Blog: “Midwest Outbreaks Pause, Hospitalizations and Deaths Keep Rising: This Week in COVID-19 Data, Nov 25.”

New Hampshire Public Radio: “N.H. Scales Back Contact Tracing Efforts As COVID-19 Cases Surge.”

Wisconsin Public Radio: “Some Counties, Overwhelmed By COVID-19 Cases, Ask Patients To Help With Contact Tracing: Public Health Departments Implement ‘Crisis Standards’ For Contact Tracing Work.”

The Roanoke Times: “As COVID case counts rise in Southwest Virginia, contact tracing gets challenging.”

NBC Miami: “‘Unprepared and Understaffed’: Miami Beach Mayor Urges DeSantis to Improve Florida’s Contact Tracing Program.”

The Associated Press: “Masks, Testing, Contact Tracing: Florida Mayors Plead With Governor To Take Action On Virus.”

The New York Times: “Contact Tracing Is Failing in Many States. Here’s Why.”

CDC: “Appendices, Appendix A — Glossary of Key Terms, Close Contact,” “Contact Tracing for COVID-19.”

Penn Today: “Can contact tracing stop the spread of COVID-19?”

CDC: “Prioritizing Case Investigations and Contact Tracing for COVID-19 in High Burden Jurisdictions.”

Delaware.gov: “Coronavirus (COVID-19) Data Dashboard.”

WBUR: “Mass. Takes Close Look At Cluster Origins To Stop Coronavirus Spread.”

MassLive: “Massachusetts Department of Health seeks bidders to test digital COVID-19 contact tracing system that uses Bluetooth signals.”

Boston.com News: “What infectious disease experts want you to understand about contact tracing and COVID-19.”

MedRxiv, preprint post: “Implication of backward contact tracing in the presence of overdispersed transmission in COVID-19 outbreak.”

Healthcare Innovation: “Reports: Massachusetts Significantly Scales Back Contact Tracing Efforts.”

Mayo Clinic: “What is contact tracing, and why is it important in fight against COVID-19?”