The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials collaborated with Johns Hopkins University to produce A National Plan to Enable Comprehensive COVID-19 Case Finding and Contact Tracing in the US. The report calls for a robust and comprehensive system to identify all COVID-19 cases and trace all close contacts of each identified case, and outlines a vision—complete with resources and specific action steps—to accomplish this goal. Here’s the media release.
Also, the Singapore Ministry of Health has built a Contact Tracing App that conducts scaled contract tracing and involves public engagement in the process. They recently announced they’re making it open source. The advantage of something like this is its value in identifying pre-symptomatic contacts, while maintaining confidentiality.
I downloaded the App to test it out but couldn’t activate it because on the verification screen they have Singapore’s country code hard wired.
