Governors are lifting coronavirus quarantines based on faulty statistics and meaningless metrics.
But just as with case rates and testing regimes, these quantitative metrics fail to capture critical qualitative considerations. Lee pointed out that contact tracing is a skilled position for which few Americans have any training or experience.
Building a contact-tracing army requires not just people but also coordination and support at every level. This includes IT systems for tracers to share information, and location tracking and text message notifications. Federal agencies may also have to provide dormitories or military barracks to quarantine contacts after they’re identified.
. Addressing these challenges won’t just require thousands of new employees; it will take an unprecedented mobilization of skills, training and technology.Isaac Bogoch, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute epidemiologist Countries with successful contact tracing efforts have databases that link COVID-19 information to a unified national health care system, a stark contrast with America’s fragmented private approach. Other contact-tracing superstars, such as Iceland and New Zealand, are islands: The majority of their new cases come from international travelers, making them easier to track than America’s diffuse epidemic.
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