PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - James Brown
AU  - Kyle Ring
AU  - Jacqui White
AU  - Nicola E Mackie
AU  - Ibrahim Abubakar
AU  - Marc Lipman
TI  - Contact tracing for SARS-CoV-2: what can be learned from other conditions?
AID  - 10.7861/clinmed.2020-0643
DP  - 2021 Feb 04
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - clinmed.2020-0643
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/early/2021/02/03/clinmed.2020-0643.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/early/2021/02/03/clinmed.2020-0643.full
AB  - Contact tracing is central to the public health response to COVID-19, but the approach taken has received criticism for failing to make enough of an impact on disease transmission. We discuss what can be learned from contact tracing in other infections, and how the natural history of COVID-19 should shape the strategies used.