{"id":63646,"date":"2020-07-31T15:21:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/contact-tracing-is-failing-in-many-states-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2020-07-31T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:21:19","slug":"contact-tracing-is-failing-in-many-states-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virusreports.net\/contact-tracing-is-failing-in-many-states-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact Tracing Is Failing in Many States. Here\u2019s Why."},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story\">\n<div>\n<header>\n<p id=\"article-summary\">Inadequate testing and protracted delays in producing results have crippled tracking and hampered efforts to contain major outbreaks.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure aria-label=\"media\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/07\/28\/science\/28VIRUS-TRACE3\/merlin_173957862_3bc4680a-bae0-43db-bf6a-1888333bef2b-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&#038;auto=webp\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\">\n<div><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" ><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" ><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" ><\/source><img alt=\"Contact tracing in an office at the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County in May.\" decoding=\"async\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/07\/28\/science\/28VIRUS-TRACE3\/merlin_173957862_3bc4680a-bae0-43db-bf6a-1888333bef2b-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp&#038;disable=upscale\" itemprop=\"url\"  src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/07\/28\/science\/28VIRUS-TRACE3\/merlin_173957862_3bc4680a-bae0-43db-bf6a-1888333bef2b-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp&#038;disable=upscale\" ><\/img><\/picture><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\">Contact tracing in an office at the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County in May.<\/span><span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\"><span>Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span>Lynne Sladky\/Associated Press<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><time datetime=\"2020-07-31T05:00:29-04:00\">July 31, 2020<\/time><time datetime=\"2020-07-31T10:01:04-04:00\">Updated <span>10:01 a.m. ET<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<section itemprop=\"articleBody\" name=\"articleBody\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>In Arizona\u2019s most populated region, the coronavirus is so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/news\/continuing_coverage\/coronavirus_coverage\/contact-tracing-important-but-less-useful-with-spiking-cases-maricopa-county-says\/article_57d55328-bb4b-11ea-8718-8b1cf4ab4137.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">ubiquitous<\/a> that contact tracers have been unable to reach a fraction of those infected.<\/p>\n<p>In Austin, Tex., the story is much the same. Just as it is in North Carolina, where the state\u2019s health secretary recently told state lawmakers that its tracking program was hiring outside workers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdhhs.gov\/news\/press-releases\/ncdhhs-selects-first-vendors-expand-testing-and-contact-tracing-covid-19\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">keep up<\/a> with a steady rise in cases, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashp.org\/state-approaches-to-contact-tracing-covid-19\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">a number of other states<\/a> have done.<\/p>\n<p>Cities in Florida, another state where Covid-19 cases are surging, have largely<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/miami-beach-mayor-urges-desantis-to-address-failures-of-floridas-contact-tracing-program\/2268324\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"> given up on tracking cases<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/coronavirus-ravaged-florida-as-ron-desantis-sidelined-scientists-and-followed-trump\/2020\/07\/25\/0b8008da-c648-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.htmlhttps:\/\/calmatters.org\/health\/coronavirus\/2020\/07\/california-covid-contact-tracers-video-los-angeles\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"> Things are equally dismal in California.<\/a> And in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/29\/nyregion\/new-york-contact-tracing.html\" title=\"\">New York City\u2019s tracing program<\/a>, workers complained of crippling communication and training problems.<\/p>\n<p>Contact tracing, a cornerstone of the public health arsenal to tamp down the coronavirus across the world, has largely failed in the United States; the virus\u2019s pervasiveness and major lags in testing have rendered the system almost pointless. In some regions, large swaths of the population have refused to participate or cannot even be located, further hampering health care workers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe are not doing it to the level or extent that it should be done,\u201d said Steve Adler, the mayor of Austin, echoing the view of many state and city leaders. \u201cThere are three main reasons. One is the sheer number of people, the second is the delay in getting test results back, the third is the wide community spread of the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/php\/contact-tracing\/contact-tracing-plan\/contact-tracing.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">goal <\/a>of contact tracing for Covid-19 is to reach people who have spent more than 15 minutes within six feet of an infected person and ask them to quarantine at home voluntarily for two weeks even if they test negative, monitoring themselves for symptoms during that time. But few places have reported systemic success. And from the very beginning of the U.S. epidemic, states and cities have struggled to detect the prevalence of the virus because of spotty and sometimes rationed diagnostic testing and long delays in getting results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s easy to say contact tracing is broken,\u201d said Carolyn Cannuscio, an expert on the method and an associate professor of family medicine and community health at the University of Pennsylvania. \u201cIt is broken because so many parts of our prevention system are broken.<strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tracking those exposed is so far behind the virus raging in most places that many public health officials believe the money and personnel involved would be better spent on other resources, like increasing test sites, helping schools prepare for reopening and educating the public about mask wearing. Some public health experts now believe that, at the very least, testing and contact tracing need to be scaled back in places with major outbreaks. In some places, they say the effort may never succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContact tracing is the wrong tool for the wrong job at the wrong time,\u201d said Dr. David Lakey, the former state health commissioner of Texas who helped oversee the Ebola response in Dallas in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cBack when you had ten cases here in Texas, it might have been useful,\u201d said Dr. Lakey, who is now the chief medical officer for the University of Texas System. \u201cBut if you don\u2019t have rapid testing, it is going to be very difficult in a disease with 40 percent of people asymptomatic. It is hard to see the benefit of it right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, a former director of the C.D.C. who is a strong advocate for robust contact tracing programs, largely agreed that it is impossible to do meaningful or substantial contact tracing with huge numbers of cases. He noted that when testing results lag as much as they have, it becomes almost impossible to keep up with the high volume of infected individuals and those who have been in contact with them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point when your cases are very high, you have to dial back your testing and contact tracing,\u201d said Dr. Frieden, who now runs Resolve to Save Lives, a nonprofit health advocacy initiative. \u201cWe may be in that situation in some parts of the country today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure aria-label=\"media\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/07\/28\/science\/28VIRUS-TRACE2\/28VIRUS-TRACE2-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&#038;auto=webp\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Image<\/span><\/p>\n<picture><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" ><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" ><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" ><\/source><img alt=\"Lines for Covid testing in Los Angeles last week.\" decoding=\"async\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/07\/28\/science\/28VIRUS-TRACE2\/28VIRUS-TRACE2-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp&#038;disable=upscale\" itemprop=\"url\"  src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/07\/28\/science\/28VIRUS-TRACE2\/28VIRUS-TRACE2-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp&#038;disable=upscale\" ><\/img><\/picture><\/div><figcaption><span aria-hidden=\"true\">Lines for Covid testing in Los Angeles last week.<\/span><span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\"><span>Credit&#8230;<\/span><span>Philip Cheung for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Others argue that contact tracing efforts around the country are still nascent, and many workers fanning out in particular zones are still too inexperienced to call it quits. These experts contend that tracking remains an important mechanism that can help as flare-ups continue over the next year and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/our-people\/C%20Watson\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Crystal Watson<\/a>, a risk-assessment specialist at the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said she had hoped more contact tracers would be trained and in place before states started reopening. For now, she expects it to be feasible only in Massachusetts, New York, North Dakota and the District of Columbia. Massachusetts, where the nonprofit group Partners in Health leads the efforts, has done particularly well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Contact tracing has been used as a tool for hundreds of years to contain diseases like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/tb\/areas-of-work\/laboratory\/contact-investigation\/en\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">tuberculosis<\/a>, yellow fever and Ebola. A rudimentary form was even used to track <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/contact-tracing-how-physicians-used-it-500-years-ago-to-control-the-bubonic-plague-139248\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">the route<\/a> of a syphilis outbreak in the 16th century. Countries like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alexandrasternlicht\/2020\/04\/30\/south-koreas-widespread-testing-and-contact-tracing-lead-to-first-day-with-no-new-cases\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">South Korea<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/20\/cheap-popular-and-it-works-irelands-contact-tracing-app-success?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"> Ireland<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/technology-and-innovation\/a-tale-of-two-contact-tracing-apps-lessons-from-australia-and-new-zealand\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Australia<\/a> used the method to successfully control the spread of the coronavirus, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The C.D.C. has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2020\/05\/18\/hhs-delivers-funding-to-expand-testing-capacity-for-states-territories-tribes.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">sent about $11 billion<\/a> in relief funds to states and local jurisdictions for expanding coronavirus testing and contact tracing. A survey of state health departments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/06\/18\/879787448\/as-states-reopen-do-they-have-the-workforce-they-need-to-stop-coronavirus-outbre\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">by National Public Radio<\/a> last month found they had roughly 37,000 contact tracers in place, with an additional 31,000 in reserve for when they would be needed. The work force \u2014 a mix of government employees, volunteers and contract workers hired by outside companies or nonprofit organizations \u2014 still falls short of the 100,000 people that the C.D.C. has recommended.<\/p>\n<p>The contact tracers, whose training varies considerably in length and content depending on what state they are in, have struggled to keep up with the rising number of cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge is that we are not dealing with ones and twos,\u201d said Fran Phillips, a deputy Secretary for Public Health for Maryland, a state that has largely kept the virus in check but still faces over 900 new cases daily. For every new case, there are several if not dozens of people to contact, especially in large cities, which further strains the system.<\/p>\n<p>Contact tracing generally works best, public health experts say, when a disease is easily detected from its onset. That is often impossible with the coronavirus because a large percentage of those infected have no symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have a situation in which there are so many people who are asymptomatic,\u201d said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, at a recent Milken Institute event. \u201cThat makes that that much more difficult, which is the reason you wanted to get it from the beginning and nip it in the bud. Once you get what they call the logarithmic increase, then it becomes very difficult to do contact tracing. It\u2019s not going well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most harmful to the effort have been the persistent delays in getting the results of diagnostic tests. Often by the time an individual tests positive, it\u2019s too late for the health care workers tracking that person to do anything.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a race against time,\u201d Ms. Phillips said. \u201cAnd if we have lost days and days of infectious period because we didn\u2019t get a lab result back, that really diminishes our ability to do contact tracing.\u201d In Maryland, like many states, some labs are taking as long as nine days to turn around results. \u201cWe are getting some assurances from national manufacturers this lag is short term,\u201d she said. \u201cI am not confident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, when sports teams and staff of the White House test people constantly, with fast turnarounds, contact tracing is i<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/white-house-executive-office-cafeteria-closed-after-positive-coronavirus-test-n1234662?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">nstant and effective.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"NYT_MAIN_CONTENT_3_REGION\">\n<div>\n<section id=\"styln-prism-freeform-1594220623585\">\n<div>\n<div data-storyline=\"The Coronavirus Outbreak\" data-truncated=\"true\" id=\"prism-freeform-block-62021\" role=\"complementary\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/news-event\/coronavirus?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;context=storylines_faq\"><\/p>\n<h3>The Coronavirus Outbreak \u203a<\/h3>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h4>\n<p>Updated July 27, 2020<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>Should I refinance my mortgage?<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/coronavirus-money-unemployment.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;context=storylines_faq\">It could be a good idea,<\/a> because mortgage rates have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/16\/business\/mortgage-rates-below-3-percent.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;context=storylines_faq\">never been lower.<\/a> Refinancing requests have pushed mortgage applications to some of the highest levels since 2008, so be prepared to get in line. But defaults are also up, so if you\u2019re thinking about buying a home, be aware that some lenders have tightened their standards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>What is school going to look like in September?<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>It is unlikely that many schools will return to a normal schedule this fall, requiring the grind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/05\/us\/coronavirus-education-lost-learning.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;context=storylines_faq\">online learning<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/29\/us\/coronavirus-child-care-centers.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;context=storylines_faq\">makeshift child care<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/03\/business\/economy\/coronavirus-working-women.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;context=storylines_faq\">stunted workdays<\/a> to continue. California\u2019s two largest public school districts \u2014 Los Angeles and San Diego \u2014 said on July 13, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/13\/us\/lausd-san-diego-school-reopening.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;context=storylines_faq\">instruction will be remote-only in the fall<\/a>, citing concerns that surging coronavirus infections in their areas pose too dire a risk for students and teachers. Together, the two districts enroll some 825,000 students. They are the largest in the country so far to abandon plans for even a partial physical return to classrooms when they reopen in August. For other districts, the solution won\u2019t be an all-or-nothing approach. <a href=\"https:\/\/bioethics.jhu.edu\/research-and-outreach\/projects\/eschool-initiative\/school-policy-tracker\/\">Many systems<\/a>, including the nation\u2019s largest, New York City, are devising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/26\/us\/coronavirus-schools-reopen-fall.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;context=storylines_faq\">hybrid plans<\/a> that involve spending some days in classrooms and other days online. There\u2019s no national policy on this yet, so check with your municipal school system regularly to see what is happening in your community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Is the coronavirus airborne?<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>The coronavirus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/04\/health\/239-experts-with-one-big-claim-the-coronavirus-is-airborne.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;context=storylines_faq\">can stay aloft for hours in tiny droplets in stagnant air<\/a>, infecting people as they inhale, mounting scientific evidence suggests. This risk is highest in crowded indoor spaces with poor ventilation, and may help explain super-spreading events reported in meatpacking plants, churches and restaurants. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/06\/health\/coronavirus-airborne-aerosols.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;context=storylines_faq\">It\u2019s unclear how often the virus is spread<\/a> via these tiny droplets, or aerosols, compared with larger droplets that are expelled when a sick person coughs or sneezes, or transmitted through contact with contaminated surfaces, said Linsey Marr, an aerosol expert at Virginia Tech. Aerosols are released even when a person without symptoms exhales, talks or sings, according to Dr. Marr and more than 200 other experts, who <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/cid\/article\/doi\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa939\/5867798\">have outlined the evidence in an open letter to the World Health Organization<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>What are the symptoms of coronavirus?<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>Common symptoms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/symptoms-coronavirus.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;context=storylines_faq\">include fever, a dry cough, fatigue and difficulty breathing or shortness of breath.<\/a> Some of these symptoms overlap with those of the flu, making detection difficult, but runny noses and stuffy sinuses are less common. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/27\/health\/coronavirus-symptoms-cdc.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;context=storylines_faq\">The C.D.C. has also<\/a> added chills, muscle pain, sore throat, headache and a new loss of the sense of taste or smell as symptoms to look out for. Most people fall ill five to seven days after exposure, but symptoms may appear in as few as two days or as many as 14 days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Does asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19 happen?<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>So far, the evidence seems to show it does. A widely cited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-020-0869-5\">paper<\/a> published in April suggests that people are most infectious about two days before the onset of coronavirus symptoms and estimated that 44 percent of new infections were a result of transmission from people who were not yet showing symptoms. Recently, a top expert at the World Health Organization stated that transmission of the coronavirus by people who did not have symptoms was \u201cvery rare,\u201d  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/09\/world\/coronavirus-updates.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;region=MAIN_CONTENT_3&#038;context=storylines_faq#link-1f302e21\">but she later walked back that statement.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Even as health care workers leap over these hurdles, they are also finding that it can be difficult not just to reach people who were potentially exposed to the virus but to get them to cooperate. Sometimes there is no good phone number, and in the cellphone era, unrecognized numbers are often ignored; 25 percent of those called in Maryland don\u2019t pick up. Others, suspicious of contact tracers or fueled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/07\/14\/890628203\/conspiracy-theories-aside-heres-what-contact-tracers-really-do\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">misinformation about them<\/a>, decline to cooperate, a stark contrast with places like Germany where compliance with contact tracers is viewed as a civic duty.<\/p>\n<p>In Florida\u2019s Miami-Dade County, contact tracers employed by the state have reached only 18 percent of those infected over the last two weeks, according to Mayor Dan Gelber of Miami Beach; many of the others were never even called. Mr. Gelber <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBoomerVazquez\/status\/1287841499422629889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1287850787830468613%7Ctwgr%5E&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.local10.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2F2020%2F07%2F27%2Fcoronavirus-in-miami-dade-contact-tracing-failures-and-talk-of-how-to-spend-federal-money%2F\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">wrote a letter<\/a> to Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday decrying the state of the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think it\u2019s a natural situation where people will say, \u2018Oh of course, I\u2019ll cooperate,\u2019\u201d Dr. Fauci said. \u201cBut there\u2019s such pushback on authority, on government, on all kinds of things like that. It makes it very complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure aria-label=\"media\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/07\/28\/science\/28VIRUS-TRACE1\/merlin_172696332_595ddde8-8ea6-4f86-a07c-e6094b540c78-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&#038;auto=webp\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Image<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption><span aria-hidden=\"true\">A list of confirmed coronavirus cases at the Salt Lake County health department in May.<\/span><span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\"><span>Credit&#8230;<\/span><span>Rick Bowmer\/Associated Press<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In Seattle, tracers found 80 percent of the people they reached <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/coronavirus\/only-1-in-5-isolating-when-covid-symptoms-develop-king-county-says\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">were not in quarantine<\/a>, even if they had symptoms. And there is little appetite in the United States for intrusive technology, such as electronic bracelets or obligatory phone GPS signals, that has worked well for contact tracing in parts of Asia. Although Americans are free to cross state lines, no national tracing program exists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe need federal leadership for standards and privacy safeguards, and I don\u2019t see that happening,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/leighbureau.com\/speakers\/lborio\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Dr. Luciana Borio<\/a>, a former director of medical and biodefense preparedness at the National Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>Many epidemiologists believe fixing the program in the United States to combat and contain the coronavirus outbreaks is essential.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>We have to start by supporting people in getting tested, which means making it easy enough for those exposed to someone or has symptoms to just show up and not worry about a doctor\u2019s order,\u201d Ms. Cannuscio said. \u201cPeople in the Covid era have a hard time telling you what day it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Joia Mukherjee, the chief medical officer at Partners in Health, the group in charge of the Massachusetts effort, outlined the principles her group insisted on: Tracers must come from the hardest-hit communities and be able to speak Spanish, Haitian Creole or whatever language the communities do.<\/p>\n<p>Every tracer must be paid, not a volunteer. And Massachusetts had to put in enough money to let the tracers \u201csupport\u201d anyone expected to self-quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask: Do you need food? Infant formula? Diapers? Cab fare? Unemployment insurance? And we help them get it,\u201d Dr. Mukherjee said. \u201cThat way people feel it\u2019s care, not surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marcus Plescia, the chief medical officer at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, said that despite the failures so far, it was too soon to surrender. States need more time to build up a tracing work force and the infrastructure to do it well, he said, and Americans need to grow more comfortable with the concept, similar to becoming accustomed to wearing masks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Dr. William Foege, a former director of the C.D.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/23\/sunday-review\/coronavirus-contact-tracing.html\" title=\"\">said recently<\/a> that effective tracers should be \u201cpsychiatrists, detectives and problem solvers all at once,\u201d and that will also take time for many who are new to the job.<\/p>\n<p>But in the meantime, Dr. Plescia said, even finding a fraction of cases through contact tracing will help slow the virus\u2019s spread.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have to strive for perfection on this,\u201d Dr. Plescia said. \u201cIt\u2019s a heavy lift and it\u2019s going to take some time. We need to hang in there and keep at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donald G. 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