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Does:

> Contact Tracers: 30 per 100k residents

Mean 30 people doing manual contact tracing full time? If so, it seems like a fuzzy metric, since it would just measure butts in seats rather than any kind of efficacy. If it's measuring something else, excuse my ignorance.

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Butts in seats might be all that can be expected. Contact tracing is a fairly specialized, skilled occupation and doing it on a large scale is not a normal public health intervention so there's no existing base of staff, but supposedly hiring lots of people and rapidly setting them up contact tracing is how China defeated this so everyone needs to do the same. At least if they don't want headlines about how they're killing everyone by not having appropriate measures in place to re-open, and those will ruin any reopening attempt as surely as actual problems.

It’s just that. People who will manually trace an infected persons contacts and force them to “Self” quarantine

Literally downvoted for explaining the filth that a contact tracer is

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