BU Today shared an article with extensive questions and answers about its contact tracing system explained, including how it works, what it means for classroom time and what happens when someone is identified as a close contact of an infected person.
“Contact tracing is an important part of a strategy for identifying close contacts of individuals infected with COVID-19 so that they can be quickly tested and placed in isolation if positive and in quarantine if not infected [but potentially incubating],” says Davidson Hamer, a School of Public Health professor of global health and medicine and a School of Medicine professor of medicine, a faculty member at BU’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, and a member of the University’s Medical Advisory Group. “This strategy can be used to help reduce onward transmission of COVID-19 and has been used successfully in Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea as part of their approach to control the spread of COVID-19 in their countries. Our model is based on the approach taken by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and is based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] guidance.”
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