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Andy Meek
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- One big shortcoming of the US response to the coronavirus pandemic right now, at least in some parts of the country, involves contact tracing.
- As things stand now, too many people who get a positive COVID-19 diagnosis either report no close contacts for contact tracing purposes -- or those contacts can't be reached.
- Contact tracing is regarded as one key piece of an overall strategy for finally defeating the coronavirus, along with regular testing and a successful vaccine.
Over the past week, the national seven-day average of new coronavirus cases is up about 9% compared to the week prior. That's according to the latest data from the researchers at Johns Hopkins University, which comes as the US recorded a little more than 44,000 new COVID-19 cases nationwide on Thursday.
As we move deeper into the fall and winter months, the US is inching closer to the arrival of a vaccine. Its arrival, coupled with other mitigation measures, will go a long way towards starting the long, slow process of easing us out of the pandemic. Those other measures include something that all of us can actually help with, because health officials say a lot of improvement needs to be made in this area. We're referring to the practice of contact tracing.
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