How coronavirus testing and contact tracing work together to quell COVID-19
Checking back to see whos been in contact with newly identified patients with an infectious disease is a standard technique for containing an epidemic, but experts argue that its particularly important for the coronavirus pandemic.
Trevor Bedford, an epidemiologist at Seattles Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, explains why and lays out a relatively straightforward system for doing contact tracing in combination with testing in a Twitter thread spun out today.
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We need a huge push to increase the speed and scale of contact tracing, but this doesnt necessarily require digital solutions, Bedford writes.
The solution suggested by Bedford and his colleagues in the NextTrace effort makes use of mobile device data, but as a supplement to the traditional phone-based and in-phone interviews used in contact tracing.
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