COVID-19 contact tracing hobbled by distrust, partisanship, and phone etiquette, Pew study finds11/4/2020 Contact tracing held the promise of giving officials a tool to get ahead of COVID-19's spread, but a new national study found tracers have yet to overcome Americans' suspicion of the process, and the obstacles presented by people's phone habits. The findings come as a new wave of cases surge nationwide, and in Pennsylvania daily case counts have eclipsed highs reported in the spring and overwhelmed the state's ability to track them. "I think if we were contact tracing effectively we would not be in the place we are," said Edward Salsberg, a George Washington University researcher who has studied effective contact tracing. Read full article.
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