Current Contact Tracing Efforts in the US
As of May 11, 2020, there is no US national contact tracing program, plan, or effort to protect the United States from continuing corona virus infection. WTF! Contact tracing is the most basic technique for identifying people at risk of developing an infection. If the US government cannot do this, the citizens of the US must develop a contact tracing program themselves in order to protect ourselves from the ravages of the pandemic. It is predicted that 60-70% of people in the US will eventually be infected with the corona virus (Meet The Press, 10 May 2020). If the current death rate of 5.9% (of confirmed cases) continues we can expect 12.7 million deaths in the US due to corona virus. This seems extraordinarily large and probably unlikely if we have underestimated the actual number of cases by using "confirmed cases as the denominator. However, since the US has failed to test enough people to know what the actual infection rate is, 12.7 million deaths represents a worst cas...