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cord-307342-3gkiukh4	Clark, Eva	Why contact tracing efforts have failed to curb COVID-19 transmission in much of the U.S	2020-08-06		.txt	text/plain	3272	192	55	By late April 2020, public discourse in the U.S. had shifted toward the idea of using more targeted case-based mitigation tactics (e.g., contact tracing) to combat COVID-19 transmission while allowing for the safe "re-opening" of society, in an effort to reduce the social, economic, and political ramifications associated with stricter approaches. This viewpoint offers a discussion of why testing-tracing efforts failed to sufficiently mitigate COVID-19 across much of the nation, with the hope that such deliberation will help the U.S. public health community better plan for the future. Partly for this reason, our nation rushed to espouse the idea of targeted, case-based COVID-19 management [3] [4] [5] [6] , focusing on expanded testing and contact tracing, while disregarding several major obstacles that set us apart from countries that succeeded in mounting a timely, targeted response.	./cache/cord-307342-3gkiukh4.txt	./txt/cord-307342-3gkiukh4.txt