Looking under the lamp-post: quantifying the performance of contact tracing in the United States during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

• Main Authors: Henry Bayly (Author), Madison Stoddard (Author), Debra Van Egeren (Author), Eleanor J Murray (Author), Julia Raifman (Author), Arijit Chakravarty (Author), Laura F White (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Contact tracing forms a crucial part of the public-health toolbox in mitigating and understanding emergent pathogens and nascent disease outbreaks. Contact tracing in the United States was conducted during the pre-Omicron phase of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This tracing relied on volunt...