COVID-19 cases.It’s frustrating, too, because it feels like we’ve backed ourselves into this corner where we have very limited and unpalatable options.That cases are surging as we enter the latter stages of autumn really ought not have been a surprise; we were warned that such a scenario was very likely, if not all but guaranteed.
What is surprising, especially in hindsight, is that we didn’t use the opportunity of the flattened curve to better prepare for this very challenge.
Why contact tracing becomes ‘impossible’ as coronavirus cases surge It has been emphasized repeatedly throughout this pandemic that an aggressive strategy of test, trace, and isolate is crucial to staying a step ahead of, and therefore containing, this virus.