Contacts tracing has proven to be an effective method to keep the virus at bay. Not sure how practical and expensive it is to carry out here in the U.S., but the most successful countries in Asia in dealing with the virus employed similar strategy.
“By mid-March, Vietnam was sending everyone who entered the country – and anyone within the country who’d had contact with a confirmed case – to quarantine centres for 14 days.
Costs were mostly covered by the government, though accommodation was not necessarily luxurious. ”
“Korea’s strategy of targeted testing and aggressive contact tracing has been held up as a successful example of how to contain the virus — even as other countries have been slow to adopt it.”
