Contact Tracing
Contact Tracing
Get and Keep America Open: Supporting states, tribes, localities, and territories
- Contact Tracing Resources
- Case Investigation & Contact Tracing Guidance
- Principles of Contact Tracing
- COVIDTracer
- Contact Tracing Communications Toolkit
- Contact Tracing Training
- Evaluating PUIs Residential
- Contact Tracing: Frequently Asked Questions for Health Departments
Key Concepts
- Trace and monitor contacts of infected people. Notify them of their exposure.
- Support the quarantine of contacts. Help ensure the safe, sustainable and effective quarantine of contacts to prevent additional transmission.
- Expand staffing resources. Contact tracing in the US will require that states, tribes, localities and territorial establish large cadres of contact tracers.
- Use digital tools. Adoption and evaluation of digital tools may expand reach and efficacy of contact tracers.
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Last Updated Nov. 10, 2020