Lessons from Contact Tracing in Mid-Missouri

Mo Med. 2021 Jan-Feb;118(1):81-84.

Abstract

The public health community has used contact tracing to address pandemics since the eighteenth century. With the emergence of COVID-19, these classical skills are the primary defense for communities to limit morbidity and mortality during the pandemic. Here we describe the methods, strengths, and challenges of contact tracing.

MeSH terms

  • Awareness
  • COVID-19 / diagnosis
  • COVID-19 / epidemiology
  • COVID-19 / prevention & control*
  • COVID-19 / virology
  • Contact Tracing / methods*
  • Contact Tracing / statistics & numerical data
  • Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control
  • Hand Disinfection / methods
  • Humans
  • Missouri / epidemiology
  • Pandemics / prevention & control*
  • Patient Isolation / methods
  • Physical Distancing
  • Public Health / methods
  • Public Health / standards
  • Quarantine / methods
  • SARS-CoV-2 / genetics
  • SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification