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Contact tracers eye cluster-busting to tackle Covid’s new surge

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Tim Loh
Bloomberg
2020 m. november 13 d. 05:35
Contact tracers eye cluster-busting to tackle Covid’s new surge
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As a resurgent coronavirus sweeps across Europe and the U.S., some health experts are calling for a “cluster-busting” approach to contact tracing like the one Japan and other countries in Asia have used with success.

Rather than simply tracking down the contacts of an infected person and isolating them, proponents advocate finding out where the individual caught Covid-19 in the first place. That extra step, known as backward tracing, exploits a weak spot of the virus — the tendency for infections to occur i

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