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People are talking about *forward* and *backward* #ContactTracing #COVID19

What do they mean?

I made a case study for the @GOARN @WHO contact tracing group

A fictional contact tracer’s tale

My slides are here:
ispmbern.github.io/covid-19/Forwa…

Short thread (1/7) Forward and backward contact tracing for COVID-19, slideshow
Most #ContactTracing seeks contacts from 2 days before the infected person developed symptoms

#SARSCoV2 can be transmitted before symptoms emerge.
That is looking *forwards*

Who might the index case have infected?

Contacts in quarantine soon enough won’t infect others

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Forward contact tracing can break onward transmission chains.

But it doesn’t find the source who infected the index case

To find the source, we need to go *backwards*

Index cases are more likely to have been infected by a source, who also infected others in a cluster

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