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A militarized approach to contact tracing is shown here as National Guard members at the Washington State Department of Health support contact tracing efforts in Tumwater, Washington—on May 20, 2020. The photo shows the guard members standing around a cubicle space talking. A table in the foreground is decorated with a drawing of a dinosaur and emblazoned with the words "I eat COVID-19 for breakfast. REUTERS/Jason Redmond

Contact Tracing Requires Building Trust

by Sandra Mullin, Denene Jonielle Rodney

As states gear up their contact tracing efforts, here’s how they should approach getting buy-in within their communities

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The image shows a heat map of the United States with states colored according to the higher number of tests coming back positive

Coronavirus Epidemiology This Week

by Tom Frieden

We won’t stop COVID-19 until we focus on the data that matter

Data reporting exists but is "woefully inadequate and regrettably incomplete," like these mostly empty COVID-19 testing kits at the CDC serology testing site in Washington, DC, on June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
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One Weak Link and the Whole Thing Falls Apart

by Thoai Ngo , Charlotte Brasseux

A more structured, uniform, and comprehensive U.S. approach is needed to collect, report, and analyze coronavirus data