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During an infectious disease outbreak, one of the best tools public health experts have is old-school detective work: finding each sick person and then figuring out who they recently interacted with. The technique, called contact tracing, helps get outbreaks of diseases like COVID-19 under control.
In order to lift social distancing measures like school closures and “stay home” orders, public health agencies will have to start aggressively contact tracing, and at a much higher level than they were a few months ago. That will keep new cases of the virus from growing into new outbreaks.
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