Test and contact tracing: two wings to get rid of COVID-19 pandemic, until we get the vaccine
Social Determinants of Health,
Vol. 6 (2020),
14 July 2020
,
Page e19
https://doi.org/10.22037/sdh.v6i1.33270
Abstract
In tracing a positive person for COVID-19, we are more likely to come across one of these scenarios: a party, a gathering, a restaurant, a flight, and so on. By tracing people and identifying these critical transmission points, we can do active testing for COVID-19 RT-PCR, recommend the self-isolation or quarantine to all individuals at the gathering, or improve the ill-structured places they had contacted, to prevent these spread multipliers and their associated costs. According to the Washington D.C.
- COVID-19
- contact tracing
- RT-PCR
- SARS-CoV-2
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