Abstract:Contact tracing is a well-known tool for public health professionals to trace and isolate contacts of known infectious persons. During a pandemic contact tracing is critical to ending an outbreak, but the volume of cases makes tracing difficult without adequate staffing tools. Hospitals equipped with electronic medical records can utilize these databases to automatically link cases into possible transmission chains and surface potential new outbreaks. While this automatic contact tracing does not have the rich… Show more
“…Cone pursued a similar approach by developing a novel outbreak detection and case connection algorithm [5]. Linking connected cases with demographic analysis at granular community levels allowed the mobile clinic teams to target outreach for testing and vaccination deployments.…”
Section: All Transmission Is Local: Meeting the Virus Where It Ismentioning
“…Cone pursued a similar approach by developing a novel outbreak detection and case connection algorithm [5]. Linking connected cases with demographic analysis at granular community levels allowed the mobile clinic teams to target outreach for testing and vaccination deployments.…”
Section: All Transmission Is Local: Meeting the Virus Where It Ismentioning
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