Contact Tracing May Soon Be on the Agenda

Contact Tracing May Soon Be on the Agenda
People wearing protective masks walk through Little Italy during the CCP virus pandemic in New York City on May 29, 2020. Cindy Ord/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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A public health tactic called “contact tracing” may soon become as necessary a part of Americans’ vocabulary as “social distancing” became earlier this year when governments launched containment efforts against the CCP virus.

Contact tracing is a tool in the public health arsenal that aims to suppress pandemics by preventing infected people from passing on pathogens to other people, and it is likely soon to become the focus of the governmental campaign against the virus.