Now Isn't the Time to Abandon Contact Tracing | WIRED

As the nation battles the Delta variant, contact tracing seems to have disappeared from the arsenal of defenses—right when it could help the most.

Save this story Save this story The rise of the Delta variant is sparking all sorts of memories—the anxiety amid the first Covid wave in spring of 2020, the crushing winter surge, the unceasing debate about “nonpharmaceutical interventions” such as masking and distancing, the concerns about kids and schools. But it hasn’t seemed to bring back discussions of contact tracing, one of the first best hopes for containing the pandemic in its earliest days. SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to WIRED and stay smart with more of your favorite Ideas writers. Contact tracing has been declared dead many times before. F

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