TY - JOUR T1 - Contact tracing for SARS-CoV-2: what can be learned from other conditions? JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med DO - 10.7861/clinmed.2020-0643 SP - clinmed.2020-0643 AU - James Brown AU - Kyle Ring AU - Jacqui White AU - Nicola E Mackie AU - Ibrahim Abubakar AU - Marc Lipman Y1 - 2021/02/04 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/early/2021/02/03/clinmed.2020-0643.abstract N2 - 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. ER -