A group of Texas business owners, former state legislators, and organizations filed suit in the Eastern District of Texas challenging the state’s adoption of contact tracing to track and monitor the spread of Covid-19.
Contact tracing is the method used to find and follow up with people who have been in close contact with others who test positive for Covid-19.
By tracing the contacts of Covid-19 patients, getting them into quarantine, and when necessary, testing them for infection, public health officials aim to slow the spread of coronavirus.
The plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern ...
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