Contact Tracing Needs Community Buy-In to Succeed in Virus Fight

Contact tracing initiatives will help contain the spread of Covid-19 only if they’re fully integrated into the communities hit hardest by Covid-19, health equity advocates say.

Contact tracing, which is designed to identify and inform people who have been exposed to the virus, is seen as crucial to slowing the pandemic and getting people back to work. But efforts to track peoples’ whereabouts require a level of trust that communities might be better served building from the ground up.

That could be difficult to earn from Black, Hispanic, and other people who are at higher risk of getting Covid-19 yet ...