Joia Mukherjee : How to quickly scale up contact tracing across the US

Joia Mukherjee·TED2020 (The TED talk was recorded May 27, 2020.)

How to quickly scale up contact tracing across the US

Summary

Contact tracing is the process of identifying people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus in order to slow its spread. It was thought about a fundamental tool in the fight against COVID-19, though, it doesn’t work well.

The speaker is a chief medical officer of Partners in Health where over 1,700 people work for the country’s most vulnerable communities to protect them.

She tells us that COVID-19 is a threat to the health of people who are the poorest.

And then, she suggests that by using a contact tracing process, COVID-19 has to be stopped.

However, not only the threat is for the poorest but also it must turn to for all people. I think that the threat is not the coronavirus. It must be to lose their job and not to be able to live there. Many people don't want to use a process of contact tracing, because we have to work to eat.