A flaw in contact tracing has emerged – people aren’t answering the phone

[Andy Meek]

• Coronavirus contact tracing isn't going as well as it should, at a time when the number of cases is surging to a frightening degree in many places around the country.
• That's according to White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, who offered at least one reason Friday for the current shortcomings related to coronavirus contact tracing.
• Too many people, Fauci said, are not answering the phone when contact tracers call.

"It's not going well. I have to tell you, it's not going well."

That's the blunt assessment that White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, who also serves as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, gave on Friday in regards to the success (or lack thereof) currently when it comes to coronavirus contact tracing. “If you get a positive, then you backtrack and try to figure out who that positive is,” Fauci said, the day after the coronavirus pandemic set scary new records in the US on Thursday. “We really need to start doing that, because the idea of doing individual identification, isolation, contact tracing, particularly in some communities where people don’t want to cooperate -- they don’t want to tell you where they’ve been and who they’ve been with.”

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