{"id":1070,"date":"2020-09-22T12:11:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T19:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2020-09-23T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:12:18","slug":"covid-19-contact-tracing-in-two-counties-north-carolina-june-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/22\/covid-19-contact-tracing-in-two-counties-north-carolina-june-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Contact Tracing in Two Counties \u2014 North Carolina, June\u2013July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>During periods of high COVID-19 incidence in two counties in North Carolina, many people with COVID-19 did not report any contacts, many contacts were not reached, and the typical time needed to notify contacts likely reduced the impact of contact tracing as a mitigation strategy. In one county, 48% of COVID-19 patients reported no contacts, and 25% of contacts were not reached. In another, 35% of COVID-19 patients reported no contacts, and 48% of contacts were not reached. The median interval from specimen collection from the index patient to notification of identified contacts was 6 days in both counties. .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Lash et al. (Sept 22, 2020). COVID-19 Contact Tracing in Two Counties \u2014 North Carolina, June\u2013July 2020. MMWR. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6938e3\"><em>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6938e3<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During periods of high COVID-19 incidence in two counties in North Carolina, many people with COVID-19 did not report any contacts, many contacts were not reached, and the typical time needed to notify contacts likely reduced the impact of contact tracing as a mitigation strategy. In one county, 48% of COVID-19 patients reported no contacts,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/22\/covid-19-contact-tracing-in-two-counties-north-carolina-june-july-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}