How to Use contact trace in a Sentence

contact trace

verb

• But the virus spread too rapidly for such contact tracing to be effective.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
• State health workers then set about the arduous task of contact tracing.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• Lessons on the power of contact tracing Remember contact tracing for Covid-19?
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 21 Dec. 2023
• Loss of funding for testing and contact tracing, as well as vaccine development, would expand the scale and duration of the pandemic, costing many more lives.
  — Harold Hongju Koh, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2020
• As the extent of the challenge became clear, the country simply could not deliver what was needed to confront it: a large-scale program of testing and contact tracing, which would have suppressed the virus and allowed the economy to remain open.
  — Danielle Allen, Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2020
• Currently, exhibitors and fair management who were exposed to the sick pigs are being monitored by the Oakland County Health Division and state partners, and fair management is helping to do contact tracing.
  — Aurora Sousanis, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2023
• Public health officials often don’t know what to do with wastewater data because these numbers represent large populations, not single cases that can be contact traced, Larsen says.
  — Betsy Ladyzhets, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• But isolation, contact tracing, and quarantine will quickly become infeasible in this case, because most SARS 2 infections are mild, and hospitals will run out of space to isolate these mild cases.
  — Benjamin Cowling, Foreign Affairs, 26 Feb. 2020
• One of the key concerns in these contact tracing apps has been the intrusion into data privacy and security including the exploitation by malicious actors and stalkers.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2020
• Medical practitioners must report leprosy within one business day to the Florida Department of Health to conduct contact tracing to contain the outbreak.
  — Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2023
• Decisive action—to contact trace, lock down, quarantine—has also made Kerala’s response exemplary.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• This includes a requirement for mask-wearing by students and employees, physical distancing, contact tracing, and other significant efforts to reduce the spread of Covid-19 among the population on the Atlanta campus.
  — Michael King, CBS News, 22 Aug. 2023
• By February, the national leadership had started to implement policies—strict quarantines, extensive testing, and abundant contact tracing—that proved highly effective in the pre-vaccination era.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Some countries responded to the first outbreaks with swift and decisive action, imposing sweeping lockdowns, shutting borders, implementing rigorous contact tracing, and enforcing social distancing and mask mandates.
  — Michele Gelfand, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
• Including this intermediate Amber Alert population could have significantly reduced the socioeconomic costs of contact tracing while retaining its epidemiological impact or could have increased its effectiveness for a similar cost.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024