July 7, 2020

Contact Tracing for Native Americans in Rural Arizona.

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions

• Close et al. report the development of an aggressive, integrated early-response plan that relies heavily on contact tracing to limit the spread of COVID-19 in a rural eastern Arizonan community of about 18,000 Native Americans. Since the inception of the staff-intensive program, more than 1,600 cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed on the reservation with a case fatality of 1.1%, which is less than half of that reported for the rest of the state of Arizona. 

Close et al. (July 2, 2020). Contact Tracing for Native Americans in Rural Arizona. The New England Journal of Medicine.  https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc2023540